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Example sentences for "keep clear"

  • You see Paget is thick with my brother Phil," he resumed; "and whenever I find a man thick with my relations, I make it a point to keep clear of that man myself.

  • Keep clear of me if you have any hankering after better things; but don't try to change my nature, for it is wasted labour.

  • No one here knows anything definite about my history; and as it is just possible Mr. Sheldon may have encountered my father somehow or other, it would be as well for him to keep clear of this house.

  • He said nothing, but followed us quietly round to the wherries, where I told the watermen that the other party had gone a different way to keep clear, and we wanted them to pull for Gosport.

  • The Jackal took good care to keep clear of the snare; but the innocent Stag knew nothing of snares or gins, so into a snare he stept, and snap!

  • The Man thought this a good idea, so he got up on his horse, and off, and was more resolved than ever to keep clear of women.

  • Keep clear of Men, if you value your life.

  • Anyhow, I want you to keep clear of my place for a day or two--to keep clear of Nell.

  • He struck out to steady himself, to keep clear of the boiling eddies where the black rocks seemed to lift and sink, and to keep his head above the smother.

  • To keep clear of such abusive discourse, you must be cautious not to discourse with commonplace, unprepared, respondents.

  • In the eristic or sophistic debate the puzzle of the respondent is, in what language to enunciate his propositions so as to keep clear of the subtle objections which will be brought against him by the questioner.

  • The young man might have been an hour in the open sea, gradually hauling off the land, in order to keep clear of the coast, when he bethought him of returning.

  • To give a berth, to keep clear of, as to give a point of land a wide berth, is to keep at a due distance from it.

  • To move to a greater distance, or to steer so as to keep clear of a vessel or other object.

  • When a ship at anchor is laid in a proper position to keep clear of her anchor, but is forced by the wind or current out of that position, she is said to break her sheer.

  • I warn you now to keep clear of me and mine.

  • For God's sake, keep clear of anything with even the faintest odour of alcohol about it.

  • I don't think Miss Seagrave will stand for what I'll drag you through if you don't keep clear of me!

  • However, Dick, I do not want to blame you, but just try to keep clear of those men, and show what a help you can be to your father on the farm.

  • Dick had not forgotten his mother's advice to keep clear of Ben Rudall, and he knew well enough that even though he should only go as a passenger, he would be committed to whatever was done by her crew.

  • But, Julian, you want to keep clear of that fellow who called you a spy," said one of the boys.

  • A thermometer that can change so many times within twenty-four hours is something that I want to keep clear of.

  • It was hard sometimes to keep clear of the gaiety around me, and this was one of the cases in which I much wished for advice.

  • I want to keep clear of them all, as I know if I go in for any I shall be gradually more and more engrossed in them.

  • Keep clear of Master Silas Bracher," he observed as we were about to part.

  • I shouted to the other men to keep clear of the danger.

  • Keep clear of the reservation; that's all you've got to do to be as safe as if you was layin' in bed on your ranch up in Jackson's Hole.

  • All you've got to do is keep clear of the reservation; don't turn a card here, no matter how easy it looks.

  • When all my life I have tried to keep clear of such things--!

  • And all my life I have tried to keep clear of such things!

  • We found him in the morning, and we asked him how he'd managed to keep clear of the Turks.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep clear" 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:
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