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Example sentences for "keep close"

  • Keep close to the dear Master, my son, ever striving to serve and honor him in all your words and ways, and all will be well with you at the last.

  • I signed to Solon to keep close at my heels, and approached the monster cautiously.

  • Tell him to keep close to the commodore, and call me the instant any thing worth reporting occurs.

  • With an irritated smile] Will you tell the jury what it was?

  • MILER has let herself in with her latchkey.

  • ACT I It is the night of Christmas Eve, the SCENE is a Studio, flush with the street, having a skylight darkened by a fall of snow.

  • Next time we go out I reckon as how we'll keep close together.

  • Pontiac wishes the English to keep close to the shores of the Great Waters.

  • Both Pontiac and his escort were on horseback, and they rode so swiftly along the forest trail that the others had all they could do to keep close to them.

  • Bewail the hardness of thy heart, keep close to the best preachers, remember that thou hangest over hell, by the weak thread of an uncertain life.

  • This is the sum of the Christian religion, as by the word may be plainly made appear: wherefore I counsel thee to keep close to these things, and touch with nothing that jostleth therewith.

  • It refers to touching the seal on a deed, called sealing it; a solemn, deliberate pledge to keep close to your covenants.

  • Keep close to the children; they will guide you.

  • Keep close to the children,' sifted the strange answer through the fruit-trees; 'the world is a big child.

  • Enable us through life to abide in Christ; to keep close to thee, transacting all our affairs with thee, before they come into the view of the world.

  • Keep close to him in the use of means, but look beyond the means for life and power.

  • Lead the way, blackies, and I'll keep close to your heels.

  • Amidst all the confusion and struggling, our California friends managed to keep close to us, as though to afford protection in case we were molested by adherents of Burley.

  • Strict orders were given this day for the camels to keep close up, and for the Arabs not to straggle, the Tibboo Arabs having been seen on the look out.

  • Keep close then, but keep up actyve looks, and be on the alart.

  • They knock me off my feet, and that's why I can't keep close up.

  • In this way we set out for the beach, with Petrak in the lead and Thirkle, carrying his bundle and smoking a cigar, treading on my heels, to make me keep close up.

  • We ought to keep close together, Mr. Trenholm, and fight together.

  • Keep close, then, but keep up actyve looks, and be on the alart.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep close" 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:
    aged twenty; bestow upon; blue cross; close order; keep awake; keep cool; keep himself; keep myself; keep order; keep quiet; keep right; keep silence; keep silent; keep thee; keep warm; keep watch; keep you; keep your; keepe them; keeping close; keeps well; large detachment; personal merit; saw them; this condition; whose soul