kept

Example Sentences

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Unlike other pandemic fads such as recreational vehicles, interest in golf has kept growing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Fish kept in seawater did produce them, and production increased even further in the hypersaline environment.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

“We kept saying we wanted to address affordability, but yet we were getting in our own way of doing that because the regulatory red tape was adding so much time.”

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

We just never noticed because we kept looking down at our feet, trying to ascertain a way out.

From Salon • May 30, 2026

He swung open the bedroom door to find the badger building a tower from the sticks Clare kept beside the hearth for kindling.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman