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Example sentences for: kept

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

Elsewhere on his world tour, which has passed through 119 countries, he kept faith with his predecessors John XXIII and Paul VI in defending the dignity of workers and anathematizing the arms race.
The film is "a hopelessly cliched newspaper yarn--I kept waiting for someone to scream into the phone, 'Baby, get me re-write!
But female founders were kept on as spokeswomen, or new front women were hired.
Cattle could also be kept off feed for 12 or more hours before they are slaughtered.
For example, stress was not soothed by a cookie monster which locked up your terminal and kept you from working until you provided a required response (whose exact form was not necessarily known by the victim) to its demand for a cookie.