Verb
(transitive) To cause to stay together.
(figuratively, idiomatic) Synonym of hold it together: to cope with adversity.
(intransitive) To stay together.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgI mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together. Ernest Hemingway
Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community. Samuel P. Huntington
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. Haruki Murakami
Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality... let us hold together under all climes and in every country... Marcus Garvey
I dispersed my objects in space and got them to hold together by making them radiate forwards, out of the picture. It's all an easy interplay of chords and rhythms made up of foreground and background colours, of conducting lines, of distances and of contrasts. Fernand Léger
They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. Shannon Hale