How to Use keep at in a Sentence
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Always try to keep at least two 5-leaflet leaves on each rose shoot.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
16 July 2026
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Austria had one good look — a header that just missed — but largely been kept at bay.
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Ashley Mowreader,
NBC news,
3 July 2026
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Not only that, they should be kept at a distance for safety reasons.
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Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 July 2026
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Chelsea will have to keep at least one striker to act as back-up for Joao Pedro.
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Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
21 July 2026
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These substances that must be kept at hundreds of degrees below zero Fahrenheit to remain stable.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 June 2026
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The general rule of thumb is to keep at least three months' worth of income saved in an accessible, interest-earning account.
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Allbusiness,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2026
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For all their forward charge, his films center narratives that turn around ideas or past incidents kept at least partially hidden until the very end.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
17 July 2026
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In the seat, Talarico vowed to support rural sheriffs, get jails out of the mental health business and keep at-risk kids in classrooms and off the streets.
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Rachel Royster
july 22,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 July 2026
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All the girls were provided with legal counsel and kept at a children's home for the next three weeks, during which time they were also interviewed about the incident.
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Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
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With its home-preparedness checklist that aims to make citizens self-sufficient for at least a week, the brochure advises keeping at the ready a backpack filled with basics, including water, batteries, and a wireless radio.
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Anna Mulrine Grobe,
Christian Science Monitor,
6 July 2026
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The King is a longtime lover of gardening, but the pride of his horticultural expertise is kept at his Highgrove House residence, near the village of Tetbury.
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Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
22 July 2026
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Flamingo is available for adoption at Anderson’s Bloomingdale adoption location and the other canines are being kept at its South Elgin shelter.
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Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
9 July 2026
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In Nolan and Hathaway’s interpretation, Penelope is a more calculating power player, keeping at bay the wolfish suitors who show up hoping to take Odysseus’ place and working the angles to preserve her son’s chance of assuming the throne.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
21 July 2026
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While Odysseus is sailing all over the Mediterranean trying to get home, Anne Hathaway’s Penelope is back on Ithaca trying to keep at bay Robert Pattinson’s Antinous and his designs on the throne.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
24 July 2026
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Subsequent Fortune reporting on the files traced how Epstein spent roughly a decade working to insert himself into Gates’ inner circle—directly and through intermediaries—and kept at it even after Gates stopped communicating with him.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
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