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How To Use kept In A Sentence

• It got so bad that 12 patrolmen and two police dogs were kept on duty outside the home for several days.
• The interiors are beautifully kept and the countryside is lush and fruitful. Times, Sunday Times
• He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
• Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
• A steady stream of self-released mix tapes and videos - all adhering to the group's cartoonishly horrifying aesthetic, all a bit more deranged than the rest - increased the buzz and kept the conversation going. In concert: OFWGKTA at U Street Music Hall
• When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
• We kept Mnemosyne for over two months, and never once did she misconduct herself or behave in an unseamanlike manner. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917
• They have kept it alive in the past and continue to make it plausible for millions of people today.
• They kept to the brush and trees, and invariably the man halted and peered out before crossing a dry glade or naked stretch of upland pasturage. War
• Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism.