Stays fresh

Usage examples of keeps.

He hates to type and keeps his tallies via pencil and clipboard a la deLint.

The Paraden Company keeps their craft in space as long as it possibly can without drydocking them.

Don't talk to me as if she keeps you at Briar for kindness' sake—nor as if you came out of sweetness of temper!

My uncle collects it—keeps it neat, keeps it ordered, on guarded shelves.

He keeps at the other, leans into the space between us, and speaks in whispers.

Your uncle is the worst kind, for he keeps to his own house, where his villainy passes as an old man's quirk.

She hovers at the pointing finger that my uncle keeps to mark the bounds of innocence at Briar, just as I once did.

She tests again with her thumb, keeps her hand another second at my jaw, and then draws back.

My uncle does not lift his head, but keeps his gaze on his own smudged hands.

He keeps my arm in his, and Sue follows behind us—first close, then falling back when he makes our pace grow brisk.

She keeps her head turned from me, but when she leaves him he raises his eyes to me and holds my gaze, as he held it once before, in darkness.

The blade of hair swings from her cheek, but keeps its curve and point.

She puts the pins to my hair, but keeps her eyes all the time on her own uncertain hands.

There's an order been signed—well, never mind by who—that keeps me here.

Another of the men sleeping nearby keeps punching at the air in his sleep.