How to Use keeping in a Sentence

keeping

noun
  • This is very much in keeping with the premise of the show.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The first method of record-keeping is the checkbook method.
    Karlton Dennis, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But teams have had time to adjust to the limit and the book keeping.
    Jim Vertuno, ajc, 22 Oct. 2022
  • And there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch by night.
    Maribeth Jones, Country Living, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Sort the lids by size and type keeping like items together.
    Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Bee keeping is very profitable because of the wild ranges.
    Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Both reports found that the last nine years have been the warmest years since record-keeping began in 1880.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • This ranks last year as the 15th-warmest since record keeping started.
    Ashley Soebroto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2023
  • This is in keeping with a board member’s oversight role.
    Amy Glynn, Forbes, 11 June 2022
  • Each fairy doll comes with four fairy accessories as well as a fairy jar for safe keeping.
    Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The gadget also comes with a carry case for tidy keeping.
    Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
  • This is in keeping with the recent awards show trend of larger fields of nominees.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 26 July 2022
  • But the service has had glitches of its own keeping up with the growth and doesn’t offer the features or breadth of posts as Twitter.
    Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
  • So are the more eye-popping fares keeping would-be travelers home?
    Marnie Hunter, CNN, 21 Feb. 2023
  • That was in keeping with Dr. Pasachoff’s own past practice.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a lot of secret-keeping, there is a lot of misdirection.
    Sean Deveney, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The Yangtze River fell to its lowest summer levels in more than a hundred years of record-keeping.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Do your part to not add to their existing debt and discuss keeping plans simple.
    CBS News, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The homeowner vacancy rate has since fallen to 0.8%, the lowest in 66 years of record-keeping.
    Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 24 May 2022
  • It’s the largest jump in revolving credit seen in three months and the fifth-largest monthly increase in Fed record-keeping that goes back nearly 55 years.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This year, the sport has faced the hottest spring on the Indian subcontinent in more than a century of record keeping and the hottest day ever in Britain.
    New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Watching the game slip away would have been far more in keeping with the Jets’ typical September efforts.
    Russ Joy | Xl Media, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Perforated covers are one of the best gutter guards for keeping leaves out.
    Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Those are headline-making events, but the larger record-keeping on all this is incomplete.
    Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Cornerbacks Ronald Darby and Brandon Stephens, also the subjects of much fretting, hit hard and did a good job keeping plays in front of them.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The three elven rings are powerful, just in a less obvious way — albeit one very much in keeping with Tolkien's themes.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2022
  • And also, just to tie it in, is really in keeping with the hacker ethos and hacker ideals about hardware hacking as well as in the software realm.
    WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Plus, a detachable neoprene zippered pouch can hold your ID and cards for quick office errands or for safe keeping at the gym.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Committee members say the process could stretch on for years, and complain about delays in the release of documents and gaps in record keeping.
    Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Failure to do so can lead to a fine or a misdemeanor for the treasurer or whomever is in charge of record-keeping, according to state law.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2022

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