How to Use maintain in a Sentence
maintain
verb- The pilot was struggling to maintain control of the aircraft.
- He has found it difficult to maintain a healthy weight.
- It was obvious that the house had been poorly maintained.
- She was finding it hard to maintain her balance.
- The police say that they will do whatever is necessary to maintain law and order.
- The company has done a poor job of maintaining its computer network.
- It's difficult to maintain a correspondence when we're both so busy.
- She still maintains a close relationship with her college roommate.
- They have always maintained high standards of professional conduct.
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No one said the heart of the home was easy to maintain!
— Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 28 Apr. 2023 -
He’s maintained the same group of friends and added some more.
— Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024 -
But the British southpaw will have to maintain that for all 12 rounds.
— Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 8 May 2021 -
Some years back, the roads running through it were closed due to the city’s lack of funds to maintain them.
— Hartford Courant, 8 Dec. 2022 -
The unions maintained that a 30-year plan puts pension funds at greater risk over the long run.
— Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2023 -
To have curly hair means having to maintain it, and that's not an easy task.
— Larry Stansbury, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022 -
Keep the soil moist, maintain a light mulch and check the soil acidity.
— Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Mar. 2021 -
But to do that, Democrats will need to maintain all of their current 47 seats and gain four more.
— Jenny Singer, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2020 -
Honing steels help to maintain the edge of a knife rather than sharpen the blade.
— Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023 -
The long-term plan is to maintain the park as a passive space for the neighborhood.
— Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022 -
On the cusp of the final, Hudson was able to maintain perspective about the freak event.
— Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023 -
The win maintains the Orioles’ standing as the best team in the American League with a 56-32 record.
— Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024 -
On the least healthy bushes, maintain foliage and deadhead just the bloom.
— Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020 -
To maintain peace, the groups trade young children, and their rivals raise them as their own.
— Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020 -
Such fly-by-wire design should make the Volar simpler to fly and maintain.
— J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2022 -
The stakes are high for the Democrats and their uphill battle to maintain control of the Senate.
— Lucas E. Wright, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024 -
This ensured that the hair would maintain its body throughout the entire day and night.
— Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2017 -
The state does not maintain a list of free testing sites, Minnick said.
— Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2020 -
The Fever couldn’t maintain their lead, however, as the Aces went on a 7-0 run to take a commanding lead at the end of the game.
— Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 27 June 2023 -
The sense of right and wrong The Diplomat told us drives Wyler is less important to maintain than zigzag plotting leading the two women to a cliffhanger catfight.
— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024 -
In the Senate, Democrats are similarly one seat away from a supermajority: Democrats and Republicans each flipped one seat last week to maintain the 23-12 status quo in the chamber.
— Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
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