How to use "holds" in a sentence

It holds

Everything holds, but the boulder doesn't move

He holds my arms in his little hands and together we dance around the room

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life

Jake holds up the bag, but he is scared, so scared, though he has to do it.

And for a while they walk, and he is happy about how carefully Junior holds the gun and how he listens and does exactly what he should

'I have a strange feeling that this business with the flies holds the answer to the whole mystery, Monsieur Delambre,' he said.