• It seems people love to hoard them and keep them for the future.
• She added that the 150000 that was set aside in the estimates should be kept in reserve for phase two.
• Some messages are important and need to be kept for future reference.

Synonyms

• Frustratingly for the family it was the first time they had stored the bikes inside the shed after previously keeping them inside the house.
• The other guys in your unit keep pinching your bike for odd jobs throughout the day, and you wouldn't mind keeping it stored underneath a desk.
• A second briefcase was kept under the White House in a secret bunker in case of nuclear attack.

Synonyms

• As I pulled up in the car park, a wasp launched itself at the windscreen and kept repeatedly battering itself against the glass.
• Like a gramophone stuck on a groove, he kept asking me why Wen shouted at him.
• There was an adorable little boy living next door to us, who would keep saying hello repeatedly until we said hello back.

Synonyms

• This product does not keep, and is mainly produced in the autumn and winter.
• The nice thing about ginger is that it keeps well.
• Pasta will keep for months in the cupboard.

• Deirdre kept her ground and the clashing of metal against metal was heard as she blocked his attack.
• Tamora kept her seat, one hand free to wield her sword with unnervingly good aim.
• She swayed from side to side upon the animal's broad back, and her ruddy face was redder than usual with the effort of keeping her seat.

• For a man who spends so much time in the gym and out on the golf course, he contrives to keep remarkably poor health.
• My mother did not keep very good health, so we had a charwoman who came in to do the cleaning.
• We have all been keeping well.

• You must be quick, and not keep me long.
• ‘I don't want to keep you,’ she apologized. ‘Guess you'd best get outside.’
• She smiled graciously and said, ‘I mustn't keep you’ and she was gone.

Synonyms

• She kept me waiting for what felt like an eternity but was probably about 15/20 minutes.
• You may have guessed that this is not the first time that he kept me waiting.
• That might not have mattered, except that they kept me waiting for about 20 minutes.

• Our protection was speed and keeping a zig-zag course.
• They kept the track, and rolled off mile after mile before daylight in an effort to catch up to the leaders.
• Keeping their course on the north side of the lake until they reached its head, they started up the mountain.

• But, above all, it has kept me supplied with the materials essential to my trade as a historian.
• I can only hope she was kept well supplied with all the little comforts she missed.
• We always planted a ridge of turnips and a ridge of cabbage to keep us supplied with vegetables.

• Twenty or so acres can be useful for keeping horses or ponies and does carry a certain prestige.
• It is an active farm which keeps sheep, goats and pigs and produces cork and honey.
• The animal bones indicated that large quantities of sheep were kept, with some cattle and pig.

Synonyms

• Little Nell Trent lives in the gloomy atmosphere of the old curiosity shop kept by her grandfather, whom she tends with devotion.
• Jeremy had often told her that her father had been a merchant who kept shop near the barracks.
• Roger, of course, would rather take care of her and keep the shop, but puts on a cheerful face.

Synonyms

• We would do anything to keep them from danger.
• Traditional values are so perverted by slavery that Sethe is driven to murder her own daughter to keep her from slavery's horrors.
• You gave him a good life and kept him from pain.

Synonyms

• He kept another woman, by whom he had two children.
• He was a clever sociopath who owned three properties and kept different women at each.
• At one stage she was told no woman editor in London would touch her novel with a barge pole because it was so unfashionable to have a story about a kept woman.

• They were once so numerous that the town kept the feast of St Crispin on October 25, patron saint of cobblers.
• Not once in the New Testament are we told to keep the Sabbath.
• Some kept all the Holy Days and some kept only Passover.

Synonyms

• Every week religious Jews observe the Sabbath, the Jewish holy day, and keep its laws and customs.
• Such a man obeys my commands and carefully keeps my laws.
• Our experience in Ireland is that the only thing that really works in terms of drivers keeping the law is fear.

• Most of my novels were written while I was in full-time employment, and I kept records of the amount of time I spent on them.
• During this era, people tended to write everything down and keep accurate records of events.
• She still keeps records charting every penny she spends and she is worried.

• Even Web sites with a noble mission to restore a sense of community now have to earn their keep.
• He organizes his charges to defuse land mines in order to earn their keep.