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Example sentences for "keeping"

Lexicographically close words:
keepership; keepes; keepest; keepeth; keepin; keepit; keeps; keepsake; keepsakes; keept
  1. Keeping all our small galleys and galleywats on the off-side under shelter.

  2. They now determined on keeping ships for fighting only; so they ordered the building of the Protector, a forty-gun ship, and the Guardian, a sloop.

  3. After keeping them a month in captivity Angria sent back his prisoners, except the captains ransom.

  4. It was more in keeping with her surroundings than Judy, and she often wrapped it around her as she sat upon the piazza, when the day was cool, and sometimes wore it on her shoulders to breakfast in the morning.

  5. Chancing to be alone with her, he told her in part what he had heard from the rector, keeping back everything pertaining to the poverty of the surroundings, and speaking mostly of Jakey and Mandy Ann, whom Amy might remember.

  6. He spent money, just the same, upon his handsome grounds; but it was only for the pride he had in keeping them up, and not for any pleasure he had in them.

  7. This was more in keeping with his ideas, and he took it to the hotel, hoping he had seen the last of Judy, who, he suggested, should be thrown away.

  8. Her active benevolence, keeping pace with her genius, rendered her equally an object of love and admiration.

  9. While you are doing this, I will be keeping you in health for the good of the country.

  10. See the brave defenders of Religion keeping up their hearts.

  11. I considered, therefore, what to do, and then ran quickly down the comb, keeping among the trees so as not to be seen.

  12. It was such a meadow as is used for the pasture of cattle and the keeping of a bull.

  13. So I followed her into the living or keeping room, where a dozen gentlemen were sitting round the table.

  14. She had an interest in keeping France alive on the American continent.

  15. White men and red, it seems clear that the French force was more than twice that of the English, while they were better posted and better sheltered, keeping all day under cover, and never showing themselves on the open meadow.

  16. On the first of the month the French began to move off towards Canada, and before many days Ticonderoga was left in the keeping of five or six companies.

  17. Well pleased, he took possession of the deserted fort, and, in the animation of success, thought for a moment of keeping the promise he had given to Pitt "to make an irruption into Canada with the utmost vigor and despatch.

  18. He had joined the Black Watch, or Forty-second Regiment, then employed in keeping order in the turbulent Highlands.

  19. He was an adept in personal politics, and was so busied with the arts of winning and keeping office that he had no leisure, even if he had had ability, for the higher work of government.

  20. The first care of the victors was to provide defence and shelter for those of their number on whom the dangerous task was to fall of keeping what they had won.

  21. Leaving the post in the keeping of Lévis and three thousand men, he embarked on Lake Champlain, rowed day and night, and reached Montreal on the nineteenth.

  22. Lord Dufferin, when minister there, procured a copy of the manuscript in question, which is now in the keeping of Abbé H.

  23. He was keeping pace with the others without the least difficulty.

  24. Seth Muggs, intent upon keeping pace with Andy on his right, and not permitting him to get out of sight, quite neglected to be equally cautious as to Jamie on his left.

  25. Early in the afternoon of the third day after leaving the Post, Eli's boat turned into the wide mouth of the Nascaupee River, and keeping a sharp look-out, he rowed silently up the river.

  26. All were to ascend through the woods at the same time, keeping a sharp look-out to right and to left for any unusual rock or other possible signs that might lead to a clue.

  27. Caius, at any other time I might have found fault with you for taking so great a part in my griefs, and yet keeping so many of your own to yourself.

  28. I looked at her again--I had been keeping my eyes away from her--but only to meet her magnified stare.

  29. Was it worse because she had been keeping worse company?

  30. It struck me that her old reason for keeping clear of our friend was well disposed of now.

  31. If my keeping quiet in those days was to help him to appear to have hit the usual taste, for the want of which he was starving, so now my breaking out was to help Mrs. Highmore to appear to have hit the unusual.

  32. She had the showiest arguments for keeping him in touch, as she called it, with good society; wishing to know with some force where, from the moment he ceased to represent it from observation, the novelist could be said to be.

  33. That's why you make me so tired--always keeping your martyr's halo polished and handy where you can slip it out of a pocket when you get just what you've been asking for.

  34. She gave him a lot of money and I'm keeping it for him," said her self-possessed young friend, and he indicated bulging pockets.

  35. And here you're keeping him in that dress when you ought to know it makes him uncomfortable--doesn't it, little boy?

  36. Followed Winona and Merle, the latter bearing her hymn book and at some pains keeping step with his companion.

  37. He nodded, keeping a straight and sober face as if we were exchanging admiring remarks about the techniques of clothes repairing, instead of conspiring.

  38. Five minutes later, I was in my car, heading for Watashaw, driving considerably faster than my usual speed and keeping a careful watch for highway patrol cars as the speedometer climbed.

  39. Bob saw a tackler coming through, and, with a deft movement, he tossed the ball out to Dick Merriwell, who had been keeping just back of him on the outside of the edge.

  40. I don't know how I can thank you for keeping him from smashing the carriage and injuring himself.

  41. Morgan thought it was a very wise regulation for a town where perils were said to be so thick, all in keeping with the notoriety of Ascalon.

  42. He was growing numb in body and mind, as one overwhelmed by a narcotic drug, yet he clung to the desperate necessity of keeping on his feet.

  43. Close within Peden's wide door, one on either hand, two vigilant strangers stood, each belted with two revolvers, each keeping a hand near his weapons.

  44. Around and around the square he tramped in the dusty, hoof-cut street, keeping his own counsel, unspeaking and unspoken to, the living spirit of the mighty law.

  45. Morgan urged his captives on, still keeping them on the trot, although it was becoming a staggering and wabbling progression, the weaker in the line held up by the more enduring.

  46. He lived only for the insistent, tenacious purpose of keeping on his feet, rather than of keeping on his feet to live.

  47. The proprietors appeared to have, on the other hand, a secret pleasure in keeping them closed, perhaps counting on the gain that would be theirs when this brief prohibition should come to its end.

  48. Bending low, he hurried back over the track he had come, keeping the heaps of kegs, barrels, and boxes between him and the road.

  49. He took it, inclining his head as in acknowledgment of its safe keeping through the night, and hastened on to one of the horses that stood dozing on three legs in the early sun.

  50. Peden's only object in keeping them back from a closer enjoyment of the battle was entirely commercial, humanity and delicacy being no part of his business plan.

  51. They were coming very fast, at a sort of hop-skip-and-jump pace, but keeping step with each other exactly.

  52. She walked slowly in that direction, keeping her foothold with difficulty in the rolling gravel on the steep side of the hill.

  53. Alec's heart was thumping in his throat so that he could hardly speak; he knew how much depended on their keeping cool and never losing their heads.

  54. Many a time has a man sprung up from sleep when attacked by myalls, and found to his consternation that he could not fire his gun, and all because he had not taken the simple precaution of keeping his loaded weapon covered from the damp.

  55. Having satisfied himself of the practicability of his plan by this personal survey, he leaped across the stream, and keeping along the edge of the cliff he soon stood above the place in the main ravine where they had camped.

  56. And revelation doth the same--"in keeping God's commandments there is great reward.

  57. Angelita was so happy living with the giants and keeping house for them that she had forgotten what fear was like.

  58. However she could think of no way to escape from keeping the contract which he had made.

  59. Perhaps you do not know how pleasant it is to take a walk with a little gloved hand resting upon your arm, little feet keeping step with yours, and a soft voice chiming in with everything you say.

  60. But on two points they tried the experiment of keeping real perils out of sight by omitting to refer to them.

  61. The feeling of nationality has played a very subordinate part in fomenting or keeping alive Irish discontent.

  62. We must, it is inferred, let the Parnellites have a Parliament of their own in Ireland, or else we shall soon cease to have any Parliament worth keeping in England.

  63. Never you mind what right I've got," Roger blazed at him, but keeping his voice low.

  64. She also knew that old Miss Clifford scented a romance, was indeed keeping out of the way now to let her be alone with Roger.

  65. Mechanically she put out her hand to take a cigarette from the table, keeping her eyes on his.

  66. Isn't there any other means of keeping her quiet?

  67. What if Thérèse had had another and more vital reason than he had thought of for keeping him away?

  68. Still keeping one arm beneath her shoulders he once more looked around and took a cautious survey of the other end of the room.

  69. You are only keeping about from sheer will power, and I'm afraid you'll pay for your stubbornness later on.

  70. The fact is, I've only just realised you are keeping Sartorius here on my account.

  71. Perhaps you don't realise that she is keeping Dr.

  72. Therefore it is hardly worth while to emphasise the reasons for keeping watch over her closely until such time as I am able to dispose of her satisfactorily.

  73. As far as possible," he said slowly, keeping his little lightish eyes upon her, "try to keep Lady Clifford out of the room.

  74. Your sister-in-law doesn't think there's any good keeping me on.

  75. By keeping close in to the woods he kept out of sight of the robber pair, and saw them turn into a thickly-wooded point at a bend in the road, where the underbrush was very dense.

  76. After keeping them on the go this way for ten days we were able to get within a mile of them and could see some of the stallions taking turns at leading the herd, while other stallions would be in the rear fighting them on.

  77. Our masters told us if the soldiers caught us, they would hang us all, which had the effect of keeping most of us close around home.

  78. When in the war dance the savages danced around me in a circle, making gestures, chanting, with every now and then a blood curdling yell, always keeping time to a sort of music provided by stretching buffalo skins tightly over a hoop.

  79. Back and forward, through the tall grass, the large herd charged, the Indians being kept too busy keeping out of their way to have much time to bother with us.

  80. Therefore we only walked our horses, or went on a dog trot, keeping a sharp lookout for the herd's return.

  81. It was all in strict accord with romantic custom in such cases made and provided, and terminated quite in keeping with the ideal conventions.

  82. And, in an emergency, Tommy knew that he had the means of keeping the beetles at bay.

  83. The beetles made no further effort to force them on, but now they could see that a number of the monsters were stationed at intervals around a wide circle, keeping the humans in a single body.

  84. They were those that debarred the clergy from the liberty of entering into the bands of matrimony, and certain females the same privilege; and also, for the keeping them in confinement all the days of their lives in nunneries.

  85. This fault is due to the difficulty experienced by beginners in keeping the larynx sufficiently below the mouth.

  86. A bell rang, and off we started with a rush, the second-class car keeping close to us.

  87. After this toro had been dispatched, one man lay down on the ground and another stood over him, keeping his head between his legs.


  88. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keeping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodation; accord; accordance; acquiescence; acquittal; adaptation; adherence; adjustment; administration; agreement; auspices; balance; care; charge; clinging; compliance; conformation; conformity; congruity; conservation; conservative; consistency; correspondence; cure; custody; discharge; equality; equilibrium; evenness; execution; finish; flexibility; fulfillment; government; grasping; gripping; guardianship; guarding; guidance; hand; harmony; heed; heeding; hold; holding; inhibition; jurisdiction; keep; keeping; line; maintenance; management; ministry; obedience; observance; observation; orthodoxy; oversight; parallelism; pastorate; patronage; performance; polarity; possession; practice; prehension; preservation; preservative; proportion; protection; protective; reconciliation; regularity; repression; respect; safekeeping; salvage; salvation; satisfaction; saving; stewardship; strictness; support; suppression; tenacious; tenacity; traditionalism; trust; tutelage; uniformity; upkeep; ward; wardship; wing


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    keeping close; keeping the; keeping them