What if they could not break the hold of the current?

And he could not break the hold that kept him going one step after another.

That one movement seemed to break his hold over me.

He was far too powerful a man for her to break his hold.

At the very last moment, just before the impact, they broke their hold on each other.

If you hadn't broken his hold on me, we would both be dead.

The other Guardian was almost on top of her, but she couldn't break the hold.

Maybe, in another second, it would have been enough to break the Gentleman's hold.

"I used a spell of my own to break its hold on me."

It takes the truth to break the alien's hold over the boy.