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Example sentences for: kept

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One would hope that the evocative pidgin will be kept alive.
Susanna found a good home for Brutta, but Bella we kept.
She has sung no more than a handful of operatic roles onstage, mostly Mozart and Rossini, and she has made a specialty of the songs that kept Rossini busy after his opera-composing career had ended.
Businesses could actually be fined if they kept childless young people on their payrolls.
He doesn't explain why he kept up the deception for two decades, long after his ex-wife had clearly overcome her problems if she ever had any, and had gotten a Ph.D. (she is now a professor of cell biology, married--but no kids).