PSAs are usually designed to form a bond and hold properly at room temperatures.

More than half of all complaints arose from firms failing to provide customers with copies of the data held about them properly.

She couldn't even pray, or hold properly to her disk.

Therefore, you're never sure they will hold properly.

It had defences which were not completed and there were too few troops to properly hold the position 'in depth'.

French anger over the Portuguese failure to properly hold, release, or exchange the prisoners contributed to a second, successful raid, the following year.

Traffickers smuggle the birds across borders in containers too small to properly hold them.

There weren't even enough to properly hold the city together, let alone start something new.

We quite properly held our fire until it was effective.

You say the plywood was stapled down, but the staples may not be holding properly.