How to Use keep at in a Sentence

keep at

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• Austria had one good look — a header that just missed — but largely been kept at bay.
  — Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 3 July 2026
• These substances that must be kept at hundreds of degrees below zero Fahrenheit to remain stable.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
• All the girls were provided with legal counsel and kept at a children's home for the next three weeks, during which time they were also interviewed about the incident.
  — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
• With its home-preparedness checklist that aims to make citizens self-sufficient for at least a week, the brochure advises keeping at the ready a backpack filled with basics, including water, batteries, and a wireless radio.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026
• Flamingo is available for adoption at Anderson’s Bloomingdale adoption location and the other canines are being kept at its South Elgin shelter.
  — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
• Subsequent Fortune reporting on the files traced how Epstein spent roughly a decade working to insert himself into Gates’ inner circle—directly and through intermediaries—and kept at it even after Gates stopped communicating with him.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 30 June 2026