keep down
Example Sentences
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How do you keep down the cost of prescription medications?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
"For businesses, effective competition in general search would help keep down the costs of search advertising, in turn leading to lower prices across the economy," the CMA said.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
"That is from the herbicides, which they spray to keep down any plant that might offer competition to the trees," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023
The scene is bookended by puke and social/professional humiliation, as the extremely Americanized Audrey struggles to keep down Thousand Year Egg shots, nevermind her guilt about being unable to adequately assimilate into Chinese culture.
From Salon • Jul. 5, 2023
The sword was loving this, while I struggled to keep down my rice dinner as the chariot rocked and spun in the hurricane.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
