keeping

IPA: kˈipɪŋ

Examples of "keeping" in Sentences

It was part of what he called keeping our relationship “low profile.”
I think, for me, a lot of this keeping is about stopping time, holding on to moments.
He was just finishing up what he called a keeping the peace mission and that's where they go with their Humvee.
Here Martyn was to do his lessons, and Emily and I carry on our studies, and do what she called keeping up her accomplishments.
Darwyn Cooke was there at first to help design things, then Cam Stewart did a marvelous job on the title keeping up with Cooke's style.
Having made his name keeping surveyors alive, he began to ride with the new ranging companies, who were often the same people who went out to guard surveying teams.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (nee Jones) is a classic partly because of the author's superb writing and intimate knowledge of the monied class (the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" was reportedly first used to describe the wealthy family of her father).
Others give themselves up to what they call keeping up society, which means being more at home in every person's house than their own; and some do a little weak art, and others a little feeble literature; but there are very few indeed who honestly buckle to the natural duties of their position, and who bear with the tedium of home work as men bear with the tedium of office work.