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Example sentences for "keep alive"

  • A desire for independence of Austria had combined with an antagonism to Prussia to keep alive in those States a spirit with which Metternich found it very hard to deal.

  • For this offence he was imprisoned; but he continued to keep alive an element of opposition in Mannheim, where he founded gymnastic unions, and edited a journal in which he denounced the Baden Ministry.

  • He was to carry out into execution what had been commanded, to keep alive in the hearts of the people the knowledge of their God as Moses had given it, to give "Torah" from the sanctuary in accordance with its principles.

  • The best that would be done would be to keep alive knowledge of what the fathers had told them.

  • What it was felt necessary to do was to keep alive an ideal view of life; and that was done by pouring into the young the history of their people, with the best that their highest minds had learned and thought of God.

  • But I ain't like you--I've got to have a little fun to keep alive.

  • If you were--if you could really understand those who are driven to work in order to keep alive?

  • Even now his first thought was of the future of the race, seeking to keep alive in his bosom to the moment of death, the hope that it would rise in spite of the unthinking element that now sought his life.

  • So, I agree with 'Squire Mullen that it is a great help to superiors to keep alive in inferiors a well developed sense of their inferiority.

  • They were thoroughly imbued with the doctrine that they were inherently superior to the Negro and instituted repressive measures to keep alive recognition of this claim.

  • One of these, which lies at the root of His ways of dealing with men, is His carefulness to keep alive in each man the sense of his personal responsibility, and of the dignity of such responsibility.

  • They were willing to work all the time; and when people did their best, ought they not to be able to keep alive?

  • We had no money--we have scarcely been able to keep alive.

  • We have been borrowing and begging to keep alive, and there is nothing more we can do--" "And the children?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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