Kept means simple past and past participle of keep. This page lists 20 example sentences from real texts, plus synonyms like broken.
Kept in a sentence
Kept meaning
simple past and past participle of keep
Synonyms of Kept
Example sentences (20)
Abby Whittaker’s son Kingsley was just a few weeks old when she noticed he kept vomiting after every bottle feed.
According to the history files, Atkinson had spent 'significant' money to make sure the Lancia was kept in a great condition.
According to economist Justin Alexander, "political dysfunction" has kept Kuwait from living up to its full economic potential.
A corner from the right hand side was kept in play by Tom Naylor allowing a second cross to come in and Ollie Banks to nod home.
I kept going back to work out again; kept crunching, tucking, sweating, squatting, but my reflection just got uglier.
The deer kept running north, and I kept driving east, shaken by the incident but otherwise no worse for the wear.
Adam, their 2-year-old, was with me, and I kept him away – we try not to let him see the gun.
We had a bad incident like this last year lady kept taking them in and the ones that were fixed kept breeding.
And then a bunch of my friends in other bands just kept putting out records and we kept putting out records.
It’s also perfect for covert operations as no records of calls or numbers are kept, and users’ identities are kept secret.
Asuka kept trying to involve Bayley in the victory celebration but Sasha kept excluding Bayley as they headed to the back.
It said that if any weapons had been kept, they would have been kept by individuals and against IRA orders.
That is, she mostly kept to herself and kept her headphones on during your visit, and sometimes she fights with her parents.
Yet Nigerian politicians kept cheering on Emiefele because he served their selfish interests and kept them liquid throughout.
A 2019 study on chickens’ diets found that adding malunggay as a natural feed supplement has kept production up and improved the chickens’ health.
According to her, despite being on bed rest for a month, she kept bleeding and it kept getting heavier.
It kept prices high, mom and pop made their mortgages, kept cops employed, produced annual excitement every year at harvest time.
People coming from red zones would be kept in institutional quarantine and those from other areas would be kept in home quarantine.
She kept sewing and making videos, and the family enterprise, the Missouri Star Quilt Company, kept buying and fixing up buildings.
Temptations such as electrical outlets should be kept covered and such as toasters and microwaves should be kept well out of reach.
Common combinations with kept
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and kept 27×
- kept in 24×
- kept the 23×
- be kept 17×
- he kept 14×
- are kept 13×
- was kept 13×
- just kept 10×
- we kept 10×
- she kept 9×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word kept. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.