keep up
verb
kept up; keeping up; keeps up
1
: to keep adequately informed or up-to-date
keep up on international affairs
2
: to continue without interruption
rain kept up all night
3
: to maintain contact or relations with someone
keep up with old friends
Examples of keep up in a Sentence
let's hope that old air conditioner keeps up through this heat wave
kept the house up while the owners were gone
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
Credit card rates are also sitting near record highs on average, and as a result, millions of borrowers are struggling to keep up with their monthly card payments.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
Viewers paid rapt attention to Robin Roberts’ journey through treatment tied to myelodysplastic syndrome, a bone marrow disease, in 2012, and, in 2023, kept up with Michael Strahan after his daughter was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
Even local Sierra ski areas, such as Palisades Tahoe, closed on Tuesday because their large staffs of professional ski patrollers could not keep up with the rapidly accumulating snow and keep guests safe from avalanches.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
Credit card rates are also sitting near record highs on average, and as a result, millions of borrowers are struggling to keep up with their monthly card payments.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
Viewers paid rapt attention to Robin Roberts’ journey through treatment tied to myelodysplastic syndrome, a bone marrow disease, in 2012, and, in 2023, kept up with Michael Strahan after his daughter was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
Even local Sierra ski areas, such as Palisades Tahoe, closed on Tuesday because their large staffs of professional ski patrollers could not keep up with the rapidly accumulating snow and keep guests safe from avalanches.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
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“Keep up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keep%20up. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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