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Example sentences for "keep away"

  • At noon we landed in a sheltered cove, brilliant with wild flowers, and partook of food, the rearward canoes joining us, but De Artigny was still ahead, perhaps under orders to keep away.

  • It was at his suggestion, you say, that you sent that young man your message of warning to keep away from me.

  • But listen now--keep away from De Artigny unless you seek trouble.

  • Miss Evelina knew that she must keep away.

  • Sometimes there has to be a little hurt to keep away a greater one.

  • It's a good thing to keep away from, and if I ever hear of your gossiping about anybody, I'll shut you up in your room for two weeks and keep you on bread and water.

  • They were supposed to be indestructible by fire or water, to keep away robbers, to heal diseases, to make the old young, and to protect against calamity of every kind.

  • You can see that it was a very short-bladed scissors, since the cutter had to take two snips over 'keep away.

  • If any possible doubt remained it is settled by the fact that 'keep away' and 'from the' are cut out in one piece.

  • To keep the wolf from the door, to keep away poverty; to prevent starvation.

  • To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety.

  • I know enough to keep away from a jellyfish," was the blunt rejoinder; "but I had a nasty time with a torpedo once.

  • But he gave William a dollar for the man outside, and said to tell him to keep away at meal times as even patriotism requires nourishment.

  • Call him up," said Jane, "and tell him to keep away.

  • She went out to the drug store and telephoned to Tom, being careful not to mention my name, because of the clerk at the soda fountain listening, saying merely to keep away from a Certain Person for a time as it was dangerous.

  • On the next he returned with another man; they had a crate of fowls, and Rolf was told to keep away from "that there little barn.

  • Then I shall shout to them: 'I say, keep away from my rye!

  • Then I shall say to them: 'I say, keep away from my rye!

  • Then I shall scream with all my might: 'Keep away from my rye!

  • At eleven, our line being well formed, Suffren made signal to keep away to west-southwest, by a movement all together.

  • These two ships, having luffed[182] to return the fire, were at once ordered to keep away again.

  • We really do want to understand these things, and it seems to me, somehow, that people like Julia Thurnbrein, and all those who really understand, keep away from us wilfully.

  • We were all there waiting for you, and there were some of us that didn't take it altogether in what I might call a favourable spirit, that you chose to keep away.

  • I'll order Lance to keep away, and if he dares disobey, I'll lick him well to show him who is master.

  • O Fee, I can't keep away; I am so sorry for him.

  • As soon as it was apparent that the Carnatic was drawing ahead, Captain Greenly was told to lay his main and fore-yards nearly square, to light up all his stay-sail sheets, and to keep away sufficiently to make every thing draw.

  • As each vessel filled on the larboard tack, she shortened sail to allow the ships astern to keep away, and close to her station.

  • Now, I propose to keep away in the Plantagenet, and just brush past the leading French ships, at about the distance the Warspite will have to pass, and so alter the face of matters a little.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    caustic soda; condensing engine; grew very; keep awake; keep clear; keep close; keep company; keep him; keep his; keep moving; keep myself; keep out; keep silence; keep silent; keep stirring; keep the; keep their; keep things; keep warm; keepe them; keeping close; keeping them; pianoforte arrangement; pursue their; systematic study; when cool