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Example sentences for: keep

How can you use “keep” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

“That's the reason we keep looking at different molecules, to find key targets involved in this regulation.”
Now would one of those fucking geniuses we keep funding build us a time machine?
To imagine that withholding clean needles from addicts will keep them away from drugs is like telling the tides to stay still.
Heart's ease and only I, like parallels, run on,Whose equal length keep equal breadth and never meet in one;Yet for not wronging him, my thoughts, my sorrow's cell,Shall not run out, though leak they will for liking him so well.
Or, do we start in a practice setting and keep refining as we go along?