How To Use Keep off In A Sentence
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I must make myself busy, to keep off morbid thoughts.
North and South
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Once you're offered a sniff of a lucky break, be willing and reliable - if you keep turning down unpalatable shifts, don't expect them to keep offering work to you.
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They lit a fire to keep off wild animals.
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Net strawberries before the fruit starts to show colour, to keep off birds.
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I managed to stick to the diet and keep off sweet foods.
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I managed to stick to the diet and keep off sweet foods.
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Covering them to keep off the worst of the wet helps but anchor covers firmly to stop them blowing away.
The Sun
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We'd better keep off the sensitive topic.
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The last three will need the mesh cover to keep off pests.
The Sun
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How can I persuade you to keep off alcohol?
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Some bread will keep off hunger for a while.
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Some bread will keep off hunger for a while.
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It was also rumoured that he could keep officers like Connie on the rails when they showed signs of uptightness.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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The notice said 'Keep off the grass'.
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How can I persuade you to keep off alcohol?
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And when the season of frost comes on, stitch together skins of firstling kids with ox-sinew, to put over your back and to keep off the rain.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The Hunsdens were always unrivalled at tracking a rascal; a downright, dishonourable villain is their natural prey — they could not keep off him wherever they met him; you used the word pragmatical just now — that word is the property of our family; it has been applied to us from generation to generation; we have fine noses for abuses; we scent a scoundrel a mile off; we are reformers born, radical reformers; and it was impossible for me to live in the same town with Crimsworth, to come into weekly contact with him, to witness some of his conduct to you (for whom personally I care nothing; I only consider the brutal injustice with which he violated your natural claim to equality) — I say it was impossible for me to be thus situated and not feel the angel or the demon of my race at work within me.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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I must make myself busy, to keep off morbid thoughts.
North and South
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How can I persuade you to keep off alcohol?
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Fowls, goats, sheep, and oxen, stalked about in innumerable flocks, and from every domicil depended a paper, inscribed with a charm from the Koran to keep off thieves and witches.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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I suggest that you keep off political issue in negotiations with them.
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Buoyancy aids should always be worn, and a cagoule will keep off the wind and water.
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He has his head in a basket, to keep off the icy draught; and in the ruggy region of his spine, as he rests on his side, are the letters C-O-O-K.
It Happened in Egypt
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This CAT has seriously Psychopathy, KEEP OFF unless you are a Psychopathy Specialist.
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The amiable residents talk of their future as the next Puerto Vallarta while they wave towels to keep off the abundant mosquitoes, and inquire if you don’t find their town tranquilo while you yawn, stupefied from a night clamorous with the sound of competing bands which played until 3 a.m.
Nayarit: San Blas, Tepic and in between
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keep off the grass
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I must make myself busy, to keep off morbid thoughts.
North and South
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Whether they will be able to keep offering such keen prices if the banks become more cautious about property lending remains to be seen.
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We all know that the holy grail for people who yo-yo diet is how to keep off the weight that they lose.
Times, Sunday Times
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I keep off drugs; During Ramadan , Muslims avoid tobacco during the day.
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He went to the bog in the morning on his breakfast of dry stirabout, with a bit of cold stirabout in his pocket to keep off the hungry grass, as the peasant calls famished pains, and walked home to his dry stirabout at night, having walked going and coming eleven Irish miles over and above his day's work.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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My doctor has warned me to keep off sugar.
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Thistles’ only doubtful starter is Anthony Nind who is nursing a hamstring strain but the nuggetty midfielder loves clashes with Workers and will be hard to keep off the paddock.
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Keep off the subject of politics.
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Its close relative, the sticky catchfly, is also in flower, and protects itself with tiny drops of glue to keep off small bugs.
Plantwatch: high summer comes early
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The howdah, or seat which the Prince occupied, was of silver, embossed and gilt, having behind a place for a confidential servant, who waved the great chowry, or cow-tail, to keep off the flies; but who could also occasionally perform the task of spokesman, being well versed in all terms of flattery and compliment.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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Little Flyaway ran after them, holding her nipperkin of milk close to her bosom, to keep off the flies, as she thought.
Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's
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People cluster around wood fires to keep off the night chill.
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Shrouded in a sheet of transparent plastic to keep off the wind and trap the warmth of his breath, he sat on his wooden tackle box wrapped in furs and sheepskin as the temperature hovered around minus 15C.
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It's best to keep off politics when my father's around.
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We'd better keep off the sensitive topic.
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We all know that the holy grail for people who yo-yo diet is how to keep off the weight that they lose.
Times, Sunday Times
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The explorers made a camp fire to keep off wild animals.
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I gave up smoking last May and decided I needed an incentive to keep off the ciggies and took up running.
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On the visit to the GP I saw a locum who said I must sit about for the next week, not use the computer, and keep off acid fruits.
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He clearly thinks he's kind of gangly and ugly, but he's obviously not repulsive, because attractive women keep offering themselves up.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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Lanark, which is used by the natives to dress the hair and anoint the skin, so as to keep off insects.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Please keep off the grass.
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And you, Tanis Half-Elven, have degenerated into a liar," Elistan remarked, smiling at the pained expression Tanis tried desperately to keep off his face.
Test Of The Twins
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The explorers made a camp fire to keep off wild animals.
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The alternative – leaving poisoned candy and loaded shotguns strewn around your property and just saying “hey, I told them damfool neighbor kids to keep off my lawn!”
What Kind of Idiot? « Lean Left
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People cluster around wood fires to keep off the night chill.
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The local police had warned visitors to keep off the beach at night.
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Most of us would rather spend that on health or education, but at the moment and in the short term the only way to keep offenders and recidivists off the streets is longer sentences.
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It wasn't fancy, by any means, but it would keep off the rain that was already starting to sprinkle.
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I keep off drugs
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I spraint my shoulder ropin 'that steer an' I just be'n over to see doc an 'he says I should keep offen bad horses fer a spell.
The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country
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Keep off the sauce!
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Sir ROGER told me further, that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilst he staid in town, to keep off infection, and that he got together a quantity of it upon the first news of the sickness being at _Dantzick_: When of a sudden, turning short to one of his servants who stood behind him, he bid him call a hackney-coach, and take care it was an elderly man that drove it.
The Coverley Papers
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This CAT has seriously Psychopathy, KEEP OFF unless you are a Psychopathy Specialist.
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How can I persuade you to keep off alcohol?
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Even now he is flooded with offers, still he has resolved to keep off since he is averse to writing songs for set tunes.
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I managed to stick to the diet and keep off sweet foods.
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Sir Roger told me further, that he looked upon it to be very good for a man whilst he stayed in town, to keep off infection, and that he got together a quantity of it upon the first news of the sickness being at Dantzick: when of a sudden, turning short to one of his servants who stood behind him, he bid him call a hackney-coach, and take care it was an elderly man that drove it.
The De Coverley Papers From 'The Spectator'
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They wore large cotton hats to keep off the sun, and gloves to protect their hands from the corn.
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Covering them to keep off the worst of the wet helps but anchor covers firmly to stop them blowing away.
The Sun
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The notice said 'Keep off the grass'.
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In the next bed were the medicinal herbs she used in potions for sick folks: squaw weed, hepatica, goldenseal, ginseng for the brain, jewelweed for poison ivy rash, wolf milk for warts, and fleabane and pale hergamot, which Granny would rub on her face and arms to keep off mosquitos and gnats.
Archive 2007-06-01
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Covering them to keep off the worst of the wet helps but anchor covers firmly to stop them blowing away.
The Sun
