Synonym: conserve, follow, keep abreast, maintain, preserve, prolong, sustain. Similar words: keep up with, step up, keep, keep on, keep off, keep to, keep away, keep down. Meaning: v. 1. maintain a required pace or level 2. lengthen or extend in duration or space 3. keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction 4. keep informed 5. prevent from going to bed at night.
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121. Schoolteachers used their own time to help their ill students keep up while convalescing.
122. She put Christmas decorations in the window just to keep up appearances.
123. The latest update to your trusty old word processor can barely keep up with your keystrokes.
124. The pressure to keep up with the passing dance club trends is rather transparent on some tracks.
125. Keep up the good work as I still have a lot to learn.
126. The butcher starts mincing children to keep up with the demand.
127. Trade deficits need to be financed and it is simply impossible to borrow enough to keep up with compound interest.
128. It's like two people trying to keep up a conversation.
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130. We all have to keep up appearances while we wait for the tide to turn.
131. The old and infirm who were too feeble to keep up with the band were left behind to die.
132. It was uncomfortable having to keep up a false front, and we regretted the distance our duplicity created.
133. If that person dies the remaining friends are not sure whether to keep up the contact or not.
134. She seemed tired and unable to keep up with ordinary social intercourse.
135. She and Laura keep up their friendship through frequent telephone calls and lunch dates.
136. He still took care to be rude and truculent at school to keep up appearances, but the old venom had faded.
137. More than 1, 100 plows struggled to keep up with the high winds and drifts of four to six feet.
138. The condescension can not be denied: look at how hard the poor chaps strive to keep up with the nuclear Joneses.
139. Children, also, carrying their bundles and striving in vain to keep up with their seniors.
140. Translators are working hard to keep up with the demand.
141. Can you keep up regular attendance at college if you pick the part-time degree?
142. In fact, it was hard for her to keep up her end of the conversation.
143. That was my dad - always trying to keep up with things.
144. Sandys was able to keep up emigration, but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000.
145. Nkrumah managed to keep up a correspondence by writing on lavatory paper which he wheedled out of his cellmates.
146. Environmental groups intend to keep up the pressure until the government changes the law.
147. Many experts doubt that capital and technology can be created fast enough in poor countries to keep up with the demand.
148. However, if they keep up their current form they will finish in the bottom eight.
149. Edie was finding it hard to keep up with her rent payments.
150. She had to keep up her work as accountant and company comptroller to support the two of them.
More similar words: keep up with, step up, keep, keep on, keep off, keep to, keep away, keep down, keep out of, keep from, keep back, keep in mind, keep an eye on, keep in touch, keep pace with, keep company with, wrap up, deputy, republic, Republican, sleep, steep, sweep, go to sleep, take effect.