How To Use Keeper In A Sentence

A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
An old poacher makes the best keeper.
Though you do need a little room at least a 20-by-20-foot pen and some solid fencing, goats are easy keepers and the most doglike pets I know of. Vet's view: Best/worst pets for allergic kids
The innkeeper, who was a choleric gnome of poor disposition, looked out of the door. STARDUST
Women also frequently work in family businesses as shopkeepers and seamstresses.

But when he returned to his room to give his other half the glad tidings, the housekeeper, who was listening to the story, interrupted to tell them that she knew of plenty of empty rooms.
After they are separated, the keepers feed the chicks by hand and must teach them to swallow whole fish.
After we had waved everyone goodbye, the Gamekeeper wandered in to confer about concrete.
It's like being a lighthouse keeper, without the view. Times, Sunday Times
The Cologne goalkeeper signalled his potential by publicly attacking the legendary Bayern Munich Maoist Paul Breitner for his heavy drinking, smoking and gambling though not, strangely enough, for his scrofulous appearance. Note to England's rugby players: embrace Der Aggro | Harry Pearson
Article 13 requires, subject to Article 15, that authorized warehouse keepers shall give compulsory guarantees to cover movement of the dutiable goods.
The shopkeeper tells me that he has agreed to buy the whole building from the owner of the freehold. Times, Sunday Times
Half-an-hour later they were launching the canoe and loading up, while the storekeeper made jocular remarks about poor, weak mortals and the contagiousness of "stampedin 'fever. TOO MUCH GOLD
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This solution gives homeowners the freedom of never having to carry or circulate multiple sets of keys, coupled with the ability to instantaneously grant entry to family members, friends, unexpected house guests, and service providers such as handymen and housekeepers. HomeToys News
His greasy ingratiation irked the Watchkeeper and he clenched his hands to hide the claws that slipped from his fingertips.
Ballack set him free with subtle chip over the top, and Klose skinned the out-rushing keeper before slotting it home with ease.
Fishermen have made adjustments lately to keep more keepers and feed fewer to sharks.
For a very long time ecclesiastics were the only keepers and users of documents and books, and for these precious materials they created special although rudimentary structures: the library, the archive, the scriptorium.
Police officers have allowed themselves to be redefined as crime fighters rather than peacekeepers and protectors of the public. Times, Sunday Times
The Sherpa has everything the Vector has (including the timekeeper), but also an anemometer that measures wind speed and wind chill in mph, knots, beaufort, km/h, and m/s.
They show high numbers of breeding waders in contrast to unmanaged unkeepered moors, which had very low numbers.
James then raced onto a long ball over the top of the defence, chipped the goalkeeper but could only look on in frustration as the ball rebounded off the post.
That must include 16 who are available to play, 14 outfield players and two goalkeepers.
They were crammed with what we term indirect workers—workers on their way to relieve a fellow employee, machine repairers en route to troubleshoot a problem, housekeepers, inventory runners. The Machine That Changed the World
Colin Howes, Keeper of Environmental Records at Doncaster Museum, says there are many problems with the legend, not least of which is the location of the woodland which harboured the wild cat.
Prices start at £145 for 3 nights for 2 people for our winter weekends in Keeper's Cottage.
The radar ovens and cybernated housekeepers did all the work; the only thing left for the men in charge was to make sure they were working properly. Starchild Omnibus
The smaller shopkeepers ganged together to beat off competition from the supermarkets.
Earlier this season he was lobbed by an opposing keeper which cost Leicester City all three points.
I was tired of being a bookkeeper.
The keeper then excelled himself by reacting quickly to block the rebound from Adam and, unbelievably, Dundee were still ahead.
I am specially pleased with; the last being an episodical bogie story about the Bass Rock told there by the Keeper. Vailima Letters
The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers. The Baronet's Bride
Is there a parallel between taking up a storekeepers time by pretending to shop and ask prices for items we know we will not buy and dating the opposite sex with no intention of a committed relationship?
He was making a living as a storekeeper in Oxford, and he had purchased a small farm a few miles outside of town.
To Slegge's annoyance, he very soon found that if the prestige of the school was to be kept up Glyn and Singh must be in the eleven, for the former in a very short time was acknowledged to be the sharpest bowler in the school, while, from long practice together, Singh was an admirable wicket-keeper -- one who laughed at gloves and pads, was utterly without fear, and had, as Wrench said -- he being a great admirer of a game in which he never had a chance to play -- "a nye like a nork. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
I understand that the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to handle the ball.
It makes no sense to keep him on your roster in a redraft league, while keeping him on your roster may be the right decision in a keeper or dynasty league. Scott Swanay: Fantasy Football - Week 4 Preview
It would have been a very good save but it was one you'd expect an international keeper to make.
Innkeepers complained of unlet rooms, and caterers of wasted supplies.
Luis Garcia goes close after getting away with a rash challenge on the goalkeeper.
It was only when I was on the second sachet and gleefully exhorting the recalcitrant bubbling cauldron to cleanse thyself, that the Gamekeeper ran in gasping and flung all the windows open. 42 entries from November 2007
An injury to Rossendale goalkeeper John Gillies proved to be the deciding factor in this match.
Under a barrage of criticism from furious shopkeepers, the council admitted there were still no proper signs at the approaches to the town directing people to the public car parks.
The Richards took over the Taranaki lighthouse in 1976 when previous keeper Charlie Mallowes died from a heart attack.
This is salsify, which the stall keeper tells me is a tasty root. London Diary 4- Borough Market
He has an uncanny feeling for being in the right spot at the right time and the opposing goalkeeper can only watch and cry. The Sun
Michael ran to the storekeeper and had him pack the snow globe, keeping the price tag separate, but hidden.
The procession is a boon for shopkeepers in the area, especially restaurateurs.
Ida Willis is a no-nonsense, interfering housekeeper whose temperament is ill-suited to her clients.
He said it was easier to substitute field players who got injured but not so for a goalkeeper when he was alone on the bench.
The soldier tried to shove past the innkeeper, but to no avail.
The club's top goalkeeper is on the transfer list.
We're the generation raised on Stephen King, The Shining or "shinning" if you're Groundskeeper Willie, Freddie and Jason slasher movies, and so on, but make a movie with some little English kids possessed by the spirits of dead lovers and we get all freaked out. Archive 2005-11-01
Yes, they had quality in attack, but their title pursuit was built on the back four and goalkeeper. Football.co.uk news feed
No self-respecting shopkeeper would touch the defeated currency, instead rattling off a long list of what was acceptable, everything from Dutch guilders and Indian rupees to francs, pounds, and the rare American dollars. A Covert Affair
We were a little bit unlucky in one or two situations, then the goalkeeper saves and it is 0-0. Times, Sunday Times
Over the same period, the number of similarly offending innkeepers who were amerced the higher sum of 3s. 4d. varied between eight in 1631 and 1637 and four in 1632 and every year between 1639 and 1642. Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner
Keepers have hand-reared some of the spiderlings from tiny eggs. The Sun
To be fair the quality of the outfield positions are excellent now but the goalkeepers are actually woeful.
Pentham charged forward like a runaway Rhino and, roared on by the vocal Thwaites fans, finished with a sublime dink over the keeper which defied a man of his size.
In The Victim, the Jewish son of an anti-gentile and ghetto-mentality storekeeper is being given a hard time by an insecure and alcoholic WASP. The Great Assimilator
It's now essential to create an innovation management system that evaluates new ideas, culling and implementing the keepers and discarding the rest.
I had a feeling that his logic would not bear close scrutiny but was too numb to argue with the ancient greenkeeper.
Whoever made the original choice of plants did a splendid job, leaving us a mix of marginals, surface-leaved and submerged oxygenating plants, all of which I would highly recommend to fellow novice pond keepers.
But the opposition striker might blaze it over the bar without your keeper having to dive the wrong way. Times, Sunday Times
By contrast, there are only about a thousand commercial beekeepers in the U.S., people who make a living harvesting and selling honey and wax and renting bees to farmers to pollinate their crops.
Shopkeepers, professional men, painters, plumbers and mechanics must have been counting down the last lingering seconds of the forenoon. MOONDROP TO MURDER
Shopkeepers are not supposed to sell knives and other sharp implements to children.
I found many excellent blogs on lighthouses eg The Keeper's Blog, Old Salt Blog, Shed Some Light on Lighthouses Blog, New England Lighthouse Treasures, Montauk Point but few of them talked about heritage protection, de-manning, funding. Archive 2009-07-01
The triumph also meant a shutout victory for goalkeeper Tim Howard, the first American to play in the final.
Pulmonary endothelial cells serve as gatekeepers to trafficking inflammatory and immune cells.
That includes paying for the housekeeper and gardener. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs. Hemmings, the housekeeper, went upstairs, imagining Horatio to be there. ALL ABOUT LOVE
Keepers said Asian elephants have the longest gestation period - at 22 months - of any animal in the world.
You'd better ring for the housekeeper to bring more soap.
Police blame the incident on what they call careless zookeepers. CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2005
Shopkeepers will also agree not to sell illegal fireworks which have been voluntarily banned by the industry.
The England keeper revealed some fancy footwork in the victory over Nottingham Forest.
The jarvey addressed as it happened had not but the keeper took Ulysses
The first, from 30 yards, was well-struck, but the keeper palmed it away and the follow-up from Anthony Ruddy was again smothered by the Erris custodian.
Scarborough, the keeper of the greenyard in London, the hedge-lookers of The Customs of Old England
By economizing on the need for agreement, you're economizing on the need for consensus and the need for gatekeepers and tastemakers, roles intellectuals have traditionally filled.
The United Nations has put peacekeepers here to maintain security, but now the UN is on its way out.
As he reached the penalty area he calmly slotted the ball past the goalkeeper.
The benevolent man reproved the keeper for what he called harsh words. Friends and Neighbors
“The Keeper will rue this before year and day are out,” said a third; “the Master of Ravenswood is the lad to wind him a pirn.” The Bride of Lammermoor
I think not," she said; "Saunders says that his mother is the most 'siccar' housekeeper that he kens of, and that after a while ye get to mind her tongue nae mair nor the mill fanners. The Lilac Sunbonnet
The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper. Robert Brault
Wearing a robe, he stumbles out of bed and opens the drapes and shades, gazing down lovingly upon the housekeeper putting Serge's midday snack into his backpack.
He just looked backwards and barged in to the goalkeeper. Times, Sunday Times
Ames's tavern sign, then, plays on the tension between lawyers with formal legal training like Dudley, and village tavern keepers and pettifoggers like Ames himself.
The career path that sees the poacher turn into a gamekeeper is not unknown. Times, Sunday Times
The Italian has been one of the best keepers in English football for quite a while now and it would be cruel if he were to spend the majority of this season on the bench.
Thus galvanised, the home side levelled in 58 minutes when Stephen Whalen drilled a powerful shot low into the keeper's far corner.
And a few bright shopkeepers had actually sussed that more people actually went into their shops to look, and then maybe buy, if they weren't being menaced under duress to do so.
Stanley winger Rory Prendergast opened the scoring on 24 minutes with a low drive from outside the box that deceived Altrincham keeper Richard Acton.
Not only have the top-boots and breeches vanished from the costume of innkeepers, but also the long, parti-coloured waistcoat, and the birds'-eye fogle round their necks. Can You Forgive Her?
Japan's major past overseas missions -- including in Iraq, near Afghanistan, and as UN peacekeepers -- have been largely for logistical and support purposes such as refuelling, transport and reconstruction. Undefined
The shopkeeper drew the bolt upon the door and slipped out into the night.
Watchkeepers were shocked to find lifebelts knotted and thrown into the water, cables ripped out of scanners and damage to their roof when they arrived at their base yesterday morning.
However, preliminary genetic analyses showed offspring admixture was probably caused by apicultural drift (beekeepers' term for the change of hive or colony).
The shopkeepers were not just dealers but they were collectors of good books.
The bunkers were in an unbelievable condition no doubt due to the efforts by the ground keepers on the other eighteen which made them almost unplayable.
Bethel and Cynthia, brown Kodiak Bear sisters whom zookeepers said are among the oldest in captivity, started their birthday at Sydney's zoo with a special breakfast of fresh, whole salmon.
They are so lovingly reared and protected by gamekeepers that they might easily mistake themselves for pets.
Abigail, the goalkeeper, showed great goalkeeping skills by preventing many goals.
The club's top goalkeeper is on the transfer list.
For wounded civilians at a U.S. military hospital in Afghanistan, the gatekeeper is God. The Doctor’s War
There are some good keepers around but none of them great. The Sun
The shortage of top-class goalkeepers will not end before next summer. Times, Sunday Times
Given the sums that they had borrowed from shopkeepers and moneylenders at high interest rates, tenants were unable to satisfy both their creditors in the towns and their landlords.
He has a housekeeper and a French chef. Times, Sunday Times
A petty thief is seen pulling off a cheap scam on a shopkeeper by a major league con-artist who recruits him for a big job.
And if you have a housekeeper, you know once your housekeeper comes, you're probably not inclined to do heavy cleaning, maybe light housekeeping.
The ball spun for the Ecuadorean and he banged in a fierce shot which the goalkeeper could only palm away.
A police officer who takes to crime is likely to be more successful at it than most. The gamekeeper turned poacher has everything going for him.
When the game is over, thank the scorekeepers and congratulate the winners, then get off the floor.
Shopkeepers are not supposed to sell knives and other sharp implements to children.
He nodded the ball down only for the goalkeeper to stick out a hand and paw it away.
Not literally, of course, but with a poor ball down the legside that his nemesis feathered to the keeper. The Sun
Adebayor got his head to a long punt from the keeper.
The keeper of a thing so nimble must not sleep, he must not be oscitant, but very intent upon his charge.
Others will be taxi drivers, students, shopkeepers or their sons.
But the under-fire Burnley keeper insists he is not battling a crisis of confidence.
After the family firm's bookkeeper-nephew takes a fatal fall, which local police deem an accident, Lynley's Yard superior asks the dectective inspector to double-check that verdict, though quietly: "No feathers ruffled but no stone unturned. In Brief: Mysteries
The shot swerved away from Boruc but the keeper followed it with his dive and did well to palm it away. The Sun
Prices include cook and housekeeper to ensure that nobody has to lift a finger. Times, Sunday Times
It was another striker versus goalkeeper confrontation which ought to have gone to the man in possession.
Shopkeepers and traders used wooden sticks with deep notches cut in them to keep their accounts.
This season, each player on the women's hockey team had to pay $125 each to cover association fees, tournament fees, referees and timekeepers.
The Waterford keeper advanced from his line to spectacularly parry Holt's thunderous shot from 18 yards before the ball had been hacked to safety.
More than 1,200 of them including farmers, gamekeepers and riders in hunting pink warned that their action was the start of a ‘summer of discontent’ to highlight opposition in the countryside to the threatened ban.
The gatekeeper nodded, and admitted them through the gate.
As a group of small shopkeepers in Lincoln, we are in a really difficult situation. The Sun
A left-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, Tindill's international cricket career spanned nearly a decade, either side of World War Two in which he served as a member of the NZEF. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Keeper keeps track of your customers and prints mailing labels with or without Postnet barcodes. Softpedia - Windows - All
The peacekeepers have suffered after-effects due to their impotency in Srebrenica.
The tale of the Basque hotelkeeper Lyda Esain captures graphically the challenges and drudgery of owning and operating such an enterprise.
Like the beekeeper taking his stand in the garden, it requires the prolonged use of miniaturized verbal trestles that can be dismantled once the swarm has gone.
The Arsenal star played a neat one-two with Rafael Van der Vaart before cheekily nutmegging keeper Hamidou. HomePage - The Sun
He has also pointed out the role played by women as bookkeepers and cashiers in small businesses, before they started to make an entry into the professional world of accounting.
His surface-to-air screamer from about 10 yards was fisted clear by the goalkeeper.
The goalkeeper just managed to palm the ball over the crossbar.
The amateur apiarist was a member of York Beekeepers' Association and became known locally as ‘Mr B the bee man’, for selling honey from his garden gate.
Gatekeeper and speckled wood butterflies flit between hemp agrimony, dusty ferns, patches of yellow bird's-foot trefoil and blue tufted vetch. Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash
The moment was regulation: Ben Hilfenhaus pushing half-forward, Matt Prior , the wicket-keeper, accepting a straightforward chance. England Retains the Ashes
One Hickling nest was built on the top of an abandoned coot's nest and in water so deep that the keeper had difficulty in reaching it clad in thigh waders.
The fish was taken, it's said, from Loch Ken by the gamekeeper on a peacock herl tied on a hook.
By the letter of the judges of the circuit court of the United States, held at Boston in June last, and the inclosed application of the underkeeper of the jail at that place, of which copies are herewith transmitted, Congress will perceive the necessity of making a suitable provision for the maintenance of prisoners committed to the jails of the several States under the authority of the United States. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 1: George Washington
The Brookes keeper performs an acrobatic save to keep Oxford off the score sheet in what was a disappointing game for the home team
Far from the wanton prodigal that she had seemed, Sarah turns out to be a faithful keeper of promises - even when they impinge upon (what she had believed to be) her greatest happiness.
The greenkeeper told us that the fairways are rolling just as fast as the greens.
The Real Madrid keeper only let two goals by him in seven games, and no save was bigger than Casillas 'save on Robben's breakaway. Oliver Haydock: Team of the Tournament and Top Five Goals at the World Cup
Sixty seconds later, he swerved away from the keeper's clawing gloves to stroke home his 21st goal of an astounding debut campaign.
From the late 18th century, successive dukes commissioned images of members of their households, particularly the keepers and huntsmen.
Some 1,400 printing workers at the printing company went on strike on August 27 to demand reinstatement of a company storekeeper.
He deliberately roughed the goal-keeper.
Local authorities should concentrate on providing services to the public not persecuting honest shopkeepers.
A bookkeeper was regarded to be a technician who executes recording operations.
Volunteers from scientific and engineering disciplines are needed to serve as moderators, judges, timekeepers and scorekeepers.
Maybe it's not fashionable to be a keeper any more, so young kids aren't taking up the position.
The shopkeepers, restaurants, and gambling-houses, with an amiable confidingness peculiar to such people, had trusted the miners to that degree that they themselves were in the same moneyless condition. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
The police admit there's little shopkeepers can do to protect their property from a mechanical digger.
The shopkeeper said all his fruit and vegetables are grown locally.
He sings as if issuing instructions to a slow-witted housekeeper.
The reserve wicketkeeper on this tour, who is unlikely to play in a Test match this summer. Times, Sunday Times
How many of those 3,500 players have been goalkeepers? Times, Sunday Times
Some keepers thus make animals seek out or chase their food. Times, Sunday Times
I handed it to the shopkeeper who handed me a small bag of sugar, which I pocketed as a treat for later.
By the early 1600s, however, the excesses of "Christmas-keepers" in England had only increased, when such practices as "mumming" had become common. "The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' Rescued his Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits"
With Area Governor, Brendan O'Doherty, in attendance and supported by a willing team of timekeepers, judges and helpers, the competition got off to a flying start.
Goal raids were frantic and the keepers were kept busy as the balls shot into the box and past the bars regularly.
The series also includes discussions with peacekeepers and peacemakers about some of the challenges that arise from religiously driven violence.
English clubs have had goalkeeper coaches for a long time. The Sun
The surprise of the Lord Keeper was scarcely less unpleasing at the duplication of the expected arrival; his mind misgave him strangely. The Bride of Lammermoor
Extra barkeepers had been engaged, and the drinkers jammed six deep before every drink - drenched and unwiped bar. Chapter 14
Small shopkeepers were fearful about losing business to the new retail giants, but most people welcomed them. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
Not only has she been seen several times, she has even talked to the innkeepers and certain guests.
They visited the keeper of the jewels and Maria pretended to faint to cause a distraction.
Eric has been signed on for the team as goalkeeper.
Built over 200 years ago, Tomsilla was originally the gamekeeper's house on the Courtown Estate and was once owned by Commandant Brennan Whitmore, aide-de-camp to Michael Collins.
When individual animals seem unable to reproduce, keepers can call in physiologists to diagnose possible biological problems.
Blackpool's goalkeeper Matt Gilks, who was born in Rochdale but has Scottish grandparents, has been called up for the first-time and will deputise for Allan McGregor. David Weir recalled to Scotland squad at the age of 40
A wicketkeeper who merges into the background is a good one. Times, Sunday Times
For example, the doorkeeper did most of the jobs we would now associate with the modern verger.
The keepership was semireligious, being connected so deeply with the Ravager. LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM
Kwanzaa pays tribute to seven core precepts of African culture, starting with umoja, which means community, collectiveness, a real keeper of a concept. Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: First Fruits of the Harvest
In the front yard the pot-bellied officer was scowling and grunting, exclaiming angrily to the monkish gatekeeper. COUP D'ETAT
Kahler also discovered that the gatekeeper was using the mausoleum as a place for Taoist priests to hold their religious rites.
He is particularly well placed, with a council groundsman, landscape gardener and golf greenkeeper on his playing staff.
Pericles is without doubt a very silly play, probably Shakespeare's silliest (and the silly bits are shared evenly between the bits he wrote and the bits by brothel-keeper and part-time playwright George Wilkins). Susan Boyle
The shot swerved away from Boruc but the keeper followed it with his dive and did well to palm it away. The Sun
Mr. ARTHUR WHITBY'S parson, Mr. NORMAN FORBES 'squire, Miss JEAN CADELL'S housekeeper, left no chinks in their armour for a critic's spleenful arrow. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
Two shopkeepers who saw the attack said the two soldiers killed had their throats slit after being ambushed in traffic.
It's a far cry from friendly chats with shopkeepers and checkout staff. The Sun
So called man-made fish - dye injected Glassfish being a typical example Which fishkeeper do you most admire - and why?
Our figgy fruitcake recipe is a keeper for those warmer months when fruitcake isn't readily available.
At the zoo, the kingsnake started to wrap his body around the zookeeper's arm when he got scared.

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