How To Use for keeps In A Sentence
- Think of the thousands and millions that are being demoralized by games of chance, by marbles -- when they play for keeps -- by billiards and croquet, by fox and geese, authors, halma, tiddledywinks and pigs in clover. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
- Issuing a COMMIT records all the work since the last COMMIT statement "for keeps" in the database.
- We used them at first for keepsakes, pocketknives and cuff links, she detailed. Sometimes It's Not Just a Cigar Box
- This gold medal is yours for keeps.
- How ‘Playing for Keeps’ developed as a novella, then a novel and then into a potential sequel (which Mur is writing as her NaNoWriMo project). Podcast: Mur Lafferty on Writing Novels and Top Tips for NaNoWriMo | The Creative Penn
- they played for keeps
- I do remember we played for keepsies and I won a nice collection of clearies, cat-eyes (the purple/green combos were my favorites), a few highly prized speckled eggs, aggies (agates), alleys (alabaster/marble), steelies, and even a few boulders.
- Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. Mignon McLaughlin
- This gold medal is yours for keeps.
- This is for keeps-no celluloid "retakes" unless one considers the numbing rote of close order drill. Latest Articles
