VERB
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prevent the action or expression of
hold back your anger
keep your cool
she struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays
keep your cool -
hold back; refuse to hand over or share
The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room -
secure and keep for possible future use or application
The landlord retained the security deposit
I reserve the right to disagree
How To Use keep back In A Sentence
- Barriers were built to keep back the flood water.
- Martin shook his head, but he had failed to keep back the wolfish, hungry look that leapt into his eyes at the suggestion of dinner. Chapter 31
- A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
- Keep back from the edge of the platform.
- The stockholders agreed to let their company keep back a part of its profits for reserve funds.
- There has been a 'creach,' that is, a raid of cattle-stealers from out of the Highland hills," she told him, hardly able to keep back her tears -- not, she explained, because of the lost cattle, but because she feared that the anger of her father might end in the slaying of some of the Caterans, and in a blood-feud which would last as long as they or any of their family lived. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
- The angry crowds would not keep back the barrier.
- Billy Camp tried to keep back of the rear in clear water, but when the wanigan so disposed, he found himself jammed close in the logs. The Blazed Trail
- The angry crowds would not keep back the barrier.
- Keep back the dogs or the sable will escape and the urson will treat them in a way they are not likely to forget. With Axe and Rifle
