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Example sentences for "keep still"

  • We may get a muscallonge before you know it, and then Hank McBride will have to keep still.

  • Keep still, Ben, I want to hear about this," said Jock.

  • I spoze a woman would have a fit if she had to keep still a minute with another woman in gunshot of her.

  • I hunched him, and sez I, "Keep still; don't show your ignorance.

  • Keep still or I don't know what'll happen!

  • Keep still, you little fule," said Beardsley, in an angry whisper.

  • He had not been gagged, as Marcy feared, but he had been told that he would be if he didn't keep still, and the threat silenced him.

  • Keep still now, you pore white trash, and you is all right," said the man who held the revolver.

  • Our letter brought the cap'n home in a tolerable hurry, and ought to have been a warning to him to keep still after he got here.

  • Then he looked to the others to keep still.

  • Polly can't get on at all if you don't keep still.

  • If he'd keep still, I could cut off his tail high up.

  • To instruct the young wife how she may guard against acquiring this habit, we would suggest that she "keep still and be well.

  • I declare, I've a mind to skin you if you don't keep still!

  • There have been those who've talked freely that have been advised to keep still or harm would come of it.

  • Well, of course, you'll do as you please, but I'd keep still.

  • I 'low I'll skin you if you don't keep still!

  • And again he raised the jug to his lips, and motioned to Amrei to keep still while he took a second long, thirsty draught.

  • But that was the way he always did--when she wanted him to speak he would keep still, and when she wanted him to keep still he would always meddle.

  • Do keep still, an' you'll hear if you don't stop me every minute.

  • I am tellin' you; keep still an' you'll hear it.

  • Yes, and I'll pin the merit badge over your mouth if you don't keep still," he heard a hearty voice say.

  • And me trying to flim-flam myself into thinking that I've got to keep still because I promised Tom.

  • If I can't stand up for him, I'll keep still," said Roy.

  • Maybe the men put the jacket on him--keep still till I get through.

  • He was a good detective, because he knew how to keep still.

  • All you have to do in the meantime is to keep still.

  • The kill has gone away,' I whispered to Baghni, but she struck me hard with her tail, almost knocking some of my teeth out; that was to keep still.

  • Keep still, Little One," objected Hathi, "no great stalk is ever done in a hurry.

  • Keep still,' whispered Baghni; 'a little noise makes a hard kill, and much noise is no kill at all.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep still" 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:
    impure thoughts; keep away; keep back; keep down; keep from; keep him; keep house; keep moving; keep ourselves; keep out; keep quiet; keep right; keep still; keep the; keep their; keep them; keep them from burning; keep warm; keeping the; keeping them; laughing matter; least one; not see; ont pas; own room; whole host