Now usually only used in the phrase with bated breath hushed and very ordinary or trivial ones.
Here, the writer presumably first adapted the phrase with bated breath, then opted for the safer verb holds, then forgot to delete bates - and nobody editorial noticed.
While we watch almost with bated breath the swaying to and fro of this vast conflict, it is this indomitable spirit which astonishes us.
I waited with bated breath for the next 24 hours to see what would happen.
I waited for that information with bated breath, but there was nothing and 1 was not surprised about that.
At one time one spoke with bated breath, as if it were a crime to induce people to leave this country and to go overseas.
We have been waiting with bated breath for quite a long while.
We have all waited with bated breath to hear.
