How to Use keeping in a Sentence

keeping

noun
  • But the care and keeping of me?
    — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • They have been placed in there for safe keeping.
    — Vanessa Murdock, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Your prayer will be the hit and the song and the keeping of time.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Due to poor record keeping, this amount could be much higher.
    — Maka Monture, Teen Vogue, 22 Nov. 2018
  • Good writing is a form of keeping.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • And there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch by night.
    — Maribeth Jones, Country Living, 17 Nov. 2022
  • But that book-keeping wasn’t all that occurred.
    — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Yet pet keeping practices seem to still be taking a toll on them.
    — Jessica Pierce, TIME, 23 June 2024
  • But teams have had time to adjust to the limit and the book keeping.
    — Jim Vertuno, ajc, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Police have the book bags for safe keeping for their owners to claim them.
    — cleveland, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Around back are a small kitchen, a full bath, and a keeping room with an enormous stone hearth.
    — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2018
  • There is room for improvement with his time-keeping as well.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 15 June 2026
  • Give the Pads high marks for house-keeping, if not ball-playing.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • One boys team already got tossed for shoddy record-keeping.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Each fairy doll comes with four fairy accessories as well as a fairy jar for safe keeping.
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Shops lie behind the façades and the items on sale inside are even in-keeping with the theme.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Last month was the hottest since record-keeping began 140 years ago.
    — Eric Niiler, WIRED, 24 July 2019
  • But there is one tidy bit of date-keeping, and that is the end of the 1960s.
    — D.b., The Economist, 23 July 2019
  • His attempt to do something for the care and keeping of himself was what cost him his life.
    — Shanika Hillocks, Bon Appétit, 12 May 2020
  • Today, many of those sales happen with little or no record-keeping.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The app will also track pay and time-keeping, including breaks and clock in and out times.
    — Lisa Marie Segarra, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • That one or two yards makes all of the difference on staying on the field and keeping drives alive.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The remaining 19 calls were for rules checks or record keeping.
    — Ben Walker, The Denver Post, 21 Dec. 2019
  • None of this was easy and record keeping was a nightmare as the tour moved by car, van, bus, or truck from town to town.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Yet in 1990, hip-hop was still in its keeping-it-real phase.
    — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This ranks last year as the 15th-warmest since record keeping started.
    — Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • It was taken to the station for safe keeping until the owner claims it.
    — cleveland, 10 June 2020
  • The seven hottest years in 140 years of record keeping are the last seven.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2021
  • All well and good, and in general keeping with the reporting over the past month or so.
    — Wired, 10 Sep. 2019
  • In the last 130 years of record-keeping, the top five warmest years took place in the last decade.
    — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025

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