How To Use Keep back In A Sentence
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Barriers were built to keep back the flood water.
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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
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A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
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Keep back from the edge of the platform.
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The stockholders agreed to let their company keep back a part of its profits for reserve funds.
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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
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The angry crowds would not keep back the barrier.
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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
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The angry crowds would not keep back the barrier.
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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
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Roughly chop the vegetables, and keep back a little to chop finely and serve as a garnish.
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Roughly chop the vegetables, and keep back a little to chop finely and serve as a garnish.
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I had dawdled a little bit at the beginning so I could keep back with the girls, but the rest of the run had felt a lot faster to me.
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Keep back! The building could collapse at any moment.
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She was unable to keep back her tears.
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This doesn't mean your living room needs to take on the look of a boudoir - keep backgrounds, walls and furniture simple.
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A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
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Hearing the sad news, she couldn't keep back her tears.
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A warped rationale twisted and struggled madly to keep back the torrent rising against the flimsy barrier of his lie.
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Yeah, I love how Cale's plans keep backfiring on him.
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We must keep back a reserve of food.
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She bit her lip to keep back the grin that she knew would look dorky.
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Hearing the sad news, she couldn't keep back her tears.
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Before we were ready to take the scene we had to put ropes up to keep back the uninvited audience which giggled and tee-heed and commented loudly throughout.
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This district has been colonized by Europeans since the middle of the sixteenth century; but down to within a very few years ago immigration was on too limited a scale to make any very great change; and, speaking only of the pampean country, the conquered territory was a long, thinly-settled strip, purely pastoral, and the Indians, with their primitive mode of warfare, were able to keep back the invaders from the greater portion of their ancestral hunting-grounds.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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She was unable to keep back her tears, and wept freely.
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A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
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trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd
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A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
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They keep back 30 % of their wages for a special fund.
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Carpets, carpet tiles or rubberised floors help to keep background noise low, allowing meaningful sounds to be more audible.
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A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
