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Example sentences for "keep her"

  • I didn't know who she was; and I took her home to my mother, and asked her to keep her for my little sister, because I never got one, and always wanted her.

  • She's my own little sister, and I'll keep her to myself.

  • And you'll keep her, and do for her, mother, won't you?

  • Vere with her secrets, Emile with his, Gaspare fighting to keep her, his Padrona, still in mystery.

  • I mustn't keep her wrapped in cotton wool.

  • He told himself that Vere was unique, and that he longed to keep her unique, so that the talent he discerned in her might remain unaffected.

  • I wish to keep her memory, if only for one night.

  • When it was night she went to keep her appointment.

  • She fell to counting the hours that were to elapse before she would meet those children, saying to herself, that whatever she did she must keep her engagement to be at the appointed steps.

  • As often as he heard instances of her want of ladylike training, he would say, "Keep her here; we'll better her.

  • She held herself better, had learned to keep her hair in order, and the more womanly dress, plain though it was, improved her figure more than could have been hoped in the days of her lank, gawky girlhood.

  • Knowing well that Mr. Rivers would be only too glad to keep her.

  • She were crazed, and my aunt couldn't keep her on, could she?

  • He believed that in the yellow head over there in the sand he had found his ideal, and that by the time she was old enough to marry, he would be able to keep her like a queen.

  • He would deceive her not once, he told himself fiercely, but a hundred times, to keep her free.

  • A girl with all that energy has got to do something, same as a boy, to keep her out of mischief.

  • Oh, we like to keep her neat," returned Giddy glibly, winking up at Ray's expressive back.

  • But you can't keep her in the dark any longer,' she urged.

  • I try my best to keep her up, but I'm afraid her weakness has much to do with it.

  • Letty is, because I expect it of her, and you can't refuse to keep her in countenance.

  • Sitting there, it would not be hard to keep her thoughts on mortality.

  • The old woman was of course ready with offers of assistance, but a word from Richard sufficed to keep her away.

  • I can see as plain as plain that you want to keep her.

  • I didn't say that Matthew and I had absolutely decided that we wouldn't keep her.

  • Yet Matthew wished to keep her, of all unaccountable things!

  • Matthew Cuthbert, you don't mean to say you think we ought to keep her!

  • I suppose--we could hardly be expected to keep her.

  • We shall see with what courage she knew how to keep her word.

  • The water reaching her before it could grow cold, scalded her so much that she was forced to keep her bed.

  • From the moment of her arrival she had been forced to keep her bed, and at six o'clock in the morning of the 21st of July she miscarried and was delivered of a daughter, still-born.

  • You are giving everything to keep her," she said.

  • Sylvia, I would give anything to keep her.

  • I've been open two years, and in that time one of my singers got an elegant delicatessen owner to keep her.

  • This man's her son--and he has to keep her if she will stay.

  • If they find anyone who don't keep her job--for good reasons--they can drop her.

  • You will sometimes: I'm obliged to do it now and then to keep her in order.

  • Well, that he must feel how much less than she he pays--and how that ought to keep her present to him.

  • Keep her eyes, for the time, from her husband's as she might, she soon found herself much more drivingly conscious of the strain on his own wit.

  • Should he keep her apart, or shut her up, for fear of risk to others, and so lose every chance of restoring her mind to its healthy tone by kindly influences and intercourse with wholesome natures?

  • He would have liked to keep her in talk a moment, but she made business-like despatch of all his allusions to the past, and got herself quickly away.

  • His mother had followed their quick parley with eager looks, as if she were trying to keep her intelligence to its work concerning them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep her" 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:
    alum water; euerie side; keep awake; keep back; keep clear; keep her; keep him; keep his; keep order; keep ourselves; keep right; keep the; keep thee; keep their; keep them; keep together; keepe them; keeping the; keeps well; literary taste; sent postpaid; sentry duty; size and; special care; total eclipse; well satisfied