Preserved

Usage examples of kept.

The secretion of TSH can, as a result, be abnormally high and the thyroid kept needlessly, and even harmfully, overactive.

The cooking, I can tell you, kept her nose to the pot, and even if there was nothing in it, even if there was no pot, she had to keep watching that it came aboil just the same.

The abomination of it all, the vengeance of destiny which exacted this sacrilege, filled her with such a feeling of revolt that at the moment when vertigo was about to seize her and the flooring began to flee from beneath her feet, she was lashed by it and kept erect.

There were a few lightly coloured Aboriginal boys left and they kept an eye on me.

Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.

The horrifying truth is that she was almost certainly kept captive in the cellar for several days, and regularly tortured and abused, until she was finally killed.

He still kept his army in Spain, and this proceeding determined Portugal to accede to some slight alterations in the first treaty.

NSA departments, and acertain level of distinction that came from the company he kept.

We kept up with the morphine, and I gave her a little Acetaminophen to ease her temperature.

When I was carrying Achates he kept me with him even though he hated me!

By mixing with milk of lime, the acidity is neutralised, zinc oxide and calcium sulphite are thrown down, and a solution of neutral sodium hydrosulphite is obtained which is more stable and can be kept longer without decomposition.

She knew that I was acquainted with those circumstances, and my presence was evidently unpleasant to her, for she had certainly no wish that the old man should hear how she kept her promise.

The vaccine you took, the poisons, the adjuvants, they would have kept away, pushed down, your need for sex.

I cast a hungry gaze on this young lady without more ado, just as if all the women in Europe were only a seraglio kept for my pleasures.

The sign advertised the grand opening, phone and location of the store and kept roaming through the neighborhood for four days.