How To Use Keep down In A Sentence
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She had severe "rheumatiz" and wrapped Sunbeam bread wrappers around her lower legs to keep down the swelling.
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Yet we all know that the pyrexia invariably returned as soon as the effects of each dose were exhausted, and in a few years the results showed that while the antipyretics served to keep down the pyrexia, and give each case the appearance of doing well, the average duration of the cases, and their mortality, were both increased.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
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She is managing to keep down her spending.
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There are simply fewer people on the land to keep down the wild dog numbers.
Times, Sunday Times
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These make an agreeable walking surface and keep down weeds very effectively.
The Education of a Gardener
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The administration of ice chips is one way to reduce mouth dryness, make patients more comfortable, and keep down bacterial overgrowth.
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We have always been taught to look upon the people of New England as a selfish, cunning set of fellows, that was fed on fox-ears and thistle-tops; that cut their wisdom-teeth as soon as they were born; that made money by their wits, and held on to it by nature; that called cheatery mother-wit; that hung on to political power because they had numbers; that raised up manufactures to keep down the South and West; and, in fact, had so much of the devil in all their machinery, that they would neither lead nor drive, unless the load was going into their own cribs.
David Crockett
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They are taking steps to keep down the rabbit population.
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They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock, to keep down inventory levels.
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They keep down the rodent population in Egypt's economically important grain fields along the Nile.
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Pressing a hand over his mouth, he stifled the wretch he could not keep down, pushing out a hand in front of him to wave the door which was already slightly ajar open.
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Cutscene movies must be limited to keep download size and rendering time manageable.
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Every time someone uses the toilet, he should pour or sprinkle into it a small amount of regular household disinfectant, such as creosol or chlorine bleach, to keep down odors and germs.
In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)
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And if necessary, yes, it has to be publicly subsidised to keep down the cost of travel.
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He came hurrying aft, nearly tumbling once; while, left to his own power alone, the coxswain redoubled his efforts to keep down the water, and the tin baler went _scoop scroop, scoop scroop_, and _splash splash_, as he sent the water flying.
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser
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So what can you do if you want to keep down the amount of food you waste?
Times, Sunday Times
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To eat of a baked apple some advice, or of a preserved quince, cuminseed prepared with meat instead of salt, to keep down fumes: not to study or to be intentive after meals.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Keep down or you'll be hit by shell fragments.
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they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
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Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster?
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Wildlife and beneficial birds return to help keep down insects and other pests.
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Once, when I was very weak with sea-sickness and wanted to keep down a dinner which I had just eaten, they insisted upon it, that, if I would only put into my mouth a piece of fat pork, and _keep it there_, my dinner would stay in its place.
Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
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These make an agreeable walking surface and keep down weeds very effectively.
The Education of a Gardener
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Then we re-entered the dunes and walked the edge of Newborough Warren, the grassed over portion of the nature reserve which is grazed by grey ponies to keep down rank grasses and for the benefit of the sand wasp.
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When there is hunger in the lodge of a warrior, he looks for the buffaloe, which is given him for food," the Teton continued, struggling to keep down the ire excited by the other's scorn.
The Prairie
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She can't keep down the raw fish that a host family have specially prepared for her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some valuable information was given about cleaning grates, waste pipes, and gullies, in order to keep down offensive smells, and parents were encouraged to follow the advice given on feeding babies.
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The newly formed bridge companies encouraged competition to keep down prices.
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These make an agreeable walking surface and keep down weeds very effectively.
The Education of a Gardener
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As Ron Christie demonstrates in his recent book, Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur, the notion that blacks who sought social, cultural or intellectual advancement were "acting white" was a slur that originated during slavery and Reconstruction as a way for whites to keep down so-called "uppity" blacks.
The Racial Biases of Duke Hating
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This probably works fine with run-of-the-mill goods and helps to keep down the cost of claims, and hence premiums.
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Sprinkle water every hour on the pot to keep down the inside temperature.
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They are taking steps to keep down the rabbit population.
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That's not all - the party plans to use paper ballots rather than voting machines in order to keep down costs.
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These make an agreeable walking surface and keep down weeds very effectively.
The Education of a Gardener
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The office buys paper in bulk to keep down costs.
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I also gave the potted plants (rosemary, chives, oregano and garlic) a bit more compost and a top dressing of bark chips to smarten them up, keep down the weeds and help with water retention.
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Mike already has a layer of wood chip mulch in place around his plants to keep down weeds and conserve moisture.
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Keep down! You mustn't let anybody see you.
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Unlike free running and other kinds of endurance sports, zorbing does not require any level of skill or fitness, only the ability to keep down your food!
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At Yalding they use a flame gun or hoe to control weeds, not chemical weedkillers; ground covering plants also keep down weeds.
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Now that I know his end, I see him creating, to use a favourite adjective of his, ‘marmorean’ verse, and believing the most terrible doctrines to keep down his own turbulence.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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They usually keep up their properties and keep down crime action mortgage processing corp nstate road margate fl phone mortgage services advantage appraisal associates.
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And then, but that half a dozen at once endeavoured to keep down her violent hands, would she have beaten herself; as it seems she had often attempted to do from the time the surgeon popt out the word mortification to her.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Just have something bland, easy to prepare and easy to keep down.
The Sun
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He trains on his own, often a solitary figure with nothing but a support car behind him, and goes to bed hungry to keep down his weight.
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However, it is seen as a sign of the kind of co-operation on which the two banks are increasingly likely to embark in an effort to keep down costs.
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To keep down costs, Brantely harvests the worms by hand, using a simple motor-driven grader that separates the worms and castings.
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Just have something bland, easy to prepare and easy to keep down.
The Sun
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If the enemy opened fire, keep down.
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Keep down - they're shooting at us!
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Keep down or you'll be hit by shell fragments.
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The shade from the lily pads and the maple was sufficient to keep down the slimy blanket weed that was threatening to fill the pond earlier in the season.
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She is managing to keep down her spending.
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These make an agreeable walking surface and keep down weeds very effectively.
The Education of a Gardener
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I also gave the potted plants (rosemary, chives, oregano and garlic) a bit more compost and a top dressing of bark chips to smarten them up, keep down the weeds and help with water retention.
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Oh, except for Homeland Security and the Military ... he'll need them to keep down social dissidents (aka pinko commie liberals).
McCain Adviser: Emergency Room Just as Good as Health Insurance
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Just have something bland, easy to prepare and easy to keep down.
The Sun
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Just have something bland, easy to prepare and easy to keep down.
The Sun