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Example sentences for "keep things"

  • With his own calamity all raw within him, Soames answered: "The papers are a pushing lot; it's very difficult to keep things out.

  • D'you think I enjoy trying to keep things straight?

  • I want you both to come to dinner, and help to keep things jolly.

  • You have learned how to keep things to yourself.

  • People from the East to keep things moving, of course.

  • She had bought enough bitter experience now not to be frightened and startled at the state of things, and she perceived how much Miss Seyton had done to keep things straight.

  • But, Cherry, I think father looked to you to keep things straight.

  • At the bottom of it lies (I am well convinced) not only the desire to keep things quiet, but the paltry jealousy of the military people.

  • Nell was a master hand for work, but she didn't keep things up a mite better than you--not so good, to my notion.

  • I try to keep things up as much like Nell as I can.

  • It is hard for me to keep things clear, to go straight ahead.

  • She was to run the home and "keep things bright" for her father.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep things" 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:
    due time; height from; keep awake; keep down; keep from; keep moving; keep quiet; keep right; keep straight; keep thee; keep their; keep thyself; keep together; keep track; keep you; keeping them; keeps well; little snow; more detail; only daughter; ordinary degree; servo arbitrio; small collection; text decoration; trench mortars; you shall have the