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.
• No one said the heart of the home was easy to maintain!
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 28 Apr. 2023
• Honing steels help to maintain the edge of a knife rather than sharpen the blade.
  — Laura Denby, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2023
• Keep the soil moist, maintain a light mulch and check the soil acidity.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Mar. 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
• This ensured that the hair would maintain its body throughout the entire day and night.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Oct. 2017
• To have curly hair means having to maintain it, and that's not an easy task.
  — Larry Stansbury, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
• 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 least healthy bushes, maintain foliage and deadhead just the bloom.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
• Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to maintain a gentle simmer.
  — Bonnie Morales, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• Who can maintain a public guise for that long without feeling the itch to take off the mask once and for all?
  — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
• To maintain peace, the groups trade young children, and their rivals raise them as their own.
  — Gary Levin, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2020
• Try rubbing them gently with one hand while the other maintains a stroke.
  — Gigi Engle, Teen Vogue, 27 June 2017
• Farmers and others burn the rainforest to clear land and maintain open space.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2019
• The group maintains a tracker on its Facebook page as well.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• Tillerson is a native Texan who maintains a home in the state.
  — Anne Gearan, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2017
• Players are now allowed to play in four games and still maintain the redshirt year.
  — Michelle Gardner, azcentral, 11 Nov. 2019
• Which leads me to the next step, learning how to start and maintain a conversation.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
• The state does not maintain a list of free testing sites, Minnick said.
  — Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2020
• People did appear to maintain distance from each other in the pews.
  — Chase Difeliciantonio, SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2020
• Flaggers will maintain at least one traffic lane on each road.
  — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2022
• Be willing to defend and maintain what is most important to you.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 7 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024