Keep is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like hold or maintain. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Keep in a sentence
Related words
Keep meaning
- To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- To hold the status of something.
Synonyms of Keep
Using Keep
- The main meaning on this page is: To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. | To remain faithful to a given promise or word. | To hold the status of something.
- Useful related words include: hold, maintain, have, have got.
- In the example corpus, keep often appears in combinations such as: to keep, and keep, keep the.
Example sentences (20)
What I told the boys, 'We keep fighting, we keep focusing, keep on going, don't back out'.
It’s much easier to keep playing, keep grinding, and keep going when you’re enjoying things.
Bruno loves to play tug of war and keep away so he can keep your biceps bulging or at least keep your arms strong!
However, those hauling the food to keep supermarkets stocked, the equipment to keep hospitals running, and the consumer goods to keep the nation supplied in their homes have warned they are being denied basic needs by the companies they supply.
Keep reading, keep thinking critically and keep thinking about November.
Let's assume that American recovers in plenty of time to easily keep paying its interest payments and agencies keep giving it good enough ratings that it can keep issuing new debt when necessary.
We are quite rightly being encouraged to buy local, keep our local businesses open, keep our local economy thriving and to keep Australians in their jobs.
You're ones who keep repeating Trump's stupid rhetoric and keep bring up the warmer weather stuff, and I keep saying we don't know that for sure.
But don’t quit, just keep trying, keep trying, keep pushing,” he said.
The buyer is just one you is well worth trying to keep, employing this sort of intermediary will allow it to be simpler to keep a great relationship with the consumer right soon after the bills get paid and want to keep off.
How do we manage this growth and prepare for it so we can keep Colorado a place we love – keep it accessible, keep it affordable?
If you want Wade Hair to do your show you need to keep it light, keep it bright, keep it gay!
Along with being quite an ambitious RPG, also falls squarely into the survival genre since players will need to keep their party fed and paid if they want to keep everyone happy, and the latter is easier said than done.
And just keep grinding and keep performing.
And one of the ways Wall Street’s demands can be met, said Gallos, is to keep adding customers and the way you do that is to keep buying systems, even ones that don’t make much sense on their face.
And so I was very excited when, a little bit after I got going, I was able to talk to Melissa and say like, “Hey, I got this idea to keep the characters connected and to keep you as a character alive in the world.
As a function of past fiat money printing and future requirements to keep Uncle Sam solvent, energy prices keep getting cheaper and cheaper each year, not more expensive like conventional wisdom believes.
Asked what advice she would give her teenage self, she added: “I would tell her to stay strong, keep going, keep writing songs, and don’t give up on your dreams.
Billups hinted that he considered taking Lillard out of the game due to fatigue, but he ultimately decided to let him keep playing after he reassured the coach he could keep going.
Borrowing for recurrent expenditures is the deal breaker for me, u can't keep borrowing money to keep drinking beer.
Common combinations with keep
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to keep 165×
- and keep 55×
- keep the 48×
- keep it 22×
- can keep 21×
- keep them 16×
- keep your 14×
- keep going 13×
- keep their 11×
- will keep 10×