How To Use For keeps In A Sentence
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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
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Issuing a COMMIT records all the work since the last COMMIT statement "for keeps" in the database.
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We used them at first for keepsakes, pocketknives and cuff links, she detailed.
Sometimes It's Not Just a Cigar Box
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This gold medal is yours for keeps.
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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
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they played for keeps
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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.
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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
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This gold medal is yours for keeps.
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This is for keeps-no celluloid "retakes" unless one considers the numbing rote of close order drill.
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Lars with the broken leg, and Davis laid off for keeps -- why, sir, we'll soon be that weak it'll take both watches to set a staysail.
CHAPTER XV
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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
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Note 12: Perry, Haight-Ashbury, 125; the handbill is replicated in Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1972), 247.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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But for all his success in the sack, he insists that what he's really looking for is a woman he can take home for keeps.
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Is it yours for keeps or does he want it back?
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Play For keeps was an ex-racehorse, who always stood on her hind legs every time her rider asked her to halt.
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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
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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
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Time magazine talks about publishing's Next Wave, Podcasting Your Novel, and profiles with J.C. Hutchins (7th Son), Scott Sigler (Contagious), Mur Lafferty (Playing for Keeps), and podiobooks. com founder, Evo Terra,.
SF Tidbits for 2/1/09
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Simply add the game to your cart and check out, and voila, it's in your game library for keeps.
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Babs wants to know if her romance with the fly guy she met last year is for keeps.
