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Example sentences for "being kept"

  • Shake the bottle well; the mixture is then ready, but is improved by being kept four or five hours before using.

  • That was why they had chosen to ride in Nimrod's brake--because they wished to chum up with him as much as possible, in order to increase their chances of being kept on in preference to others who were not so respectable.

  • None of them wished to spoil his chance of being kept on to help to do the other house that it was reported Rushton & Co.

  • Their only chance of being kept on if other work came in was to tear into it for all they were worth.

  • If there is one thing a Boer hates it is being kept awake at night.

  • The Boers then had a grumble at being kept so far away from the fighting.

  • They had seen nothing of the fighting, being kept down at Potgieter's Drift in readiness to advance the moment that orders came.

  • I'd forgotten Mr. Castoon who is probably furious at being kept waiting.

  • She said she had forgotten you," Trent answered, "she also said you would probably be furious at being kept waiting.

  • In order that by being kept cool it may cut the caoutchouc better, it is plunged at its lower part into a trough B, full of water; a stopcock R, serves to empty this trough.

  • The infusion is merely filtered, and then employed without any mordant, for dyeing silk, being kept at a warm temperature by surrounding the bath vessel with hot water.

  • The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.

  • Defn: A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.

  • There is, however, a difference between them which is worthy of being kept in mind.

  • The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep.

  • A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being kept" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being about; being boiled; being bound; being cast; being desirous; being disturbed; being done; being drunk; being employed; being free; being gone; being kept; being necessary; being obliged; being ordained; being produced; being questioned; being united; being usually; being well; being what; native cloth; own room; peculiar expression; shaped fruit; she repeated