VERB
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prevent the action or expression of
hold back your anger
keep your cool
she struggled to restrain her impatience at the delays
keep your cool -
hold back; refuse to hand over or share
The father is withholding the allowance until the son cleans his room -
secure and keep for possible future use or application
The landlord retained the security deposit
I reserve the right to disagree
How To Use keep back In A Sentence
- The angry crowds would not keep back the barrier.
- A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
- A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
- Carpets, carpet tiles or rubberised floors help to keep background noise low, allowing meaningful sounds to be more audible.
- They keep back 30 % of their wages for a special fund.
- A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
- trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd
- A slow learner can keep back the whole class.
- She was unable to keep back her tears, and wept freely.
- This district has been colonized by Europeans since the middle of the sixteenth century; but down to within a very few years ago immigration was on too limited a scale to make any very great change; and, speaking only of the pampean country, the conquered territory was a long, thinly-settled strip, purely pastoral, and the Indians, with their primitive mode of warfare, were able to keep back the invaders from the greater portion of their ancestral hunting-grounds. The Naturalist in La Plata
