keep off

How To Use keep off In A Sentence

• Even now he is flooded with offers, still he has resolved to keep off since he is averse to writing songs for set tunes.
• People cluster around wood fires to keep off the night chill.
• The alternative – leaving poisoned candy and loaded shotguns strewn around your property and just saying “hey, I told them damfool neighbor kids to keep off my lawn!” What Kind of Idiot? « Lean Left
• The explorers made a camp fire to keep off wild animals.
• And you, Tanis Half-Elven, have degenerated into a liar," Elistan remarked, smiling at the pained expression Tanis tried desperately to keep off his face. Test Of The Twins
• Please keep off the grass.
• Lanark, which is used by the natives to dress the hair and anoint the skin, so as to keep off insects. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
• He clearly thinks he's kind of gangly and ugly, but he's obviously not repulsive, because attractive women keep offering themselves up. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• The howdah, or seat which the Prince occupied, was of silver, embossed and gilt, having behind a place for a confidential servant, who waved the great chowry, or cow-tail, to keep off the flies; but who could also occasionally perform the task of spokesman, being well versed in all terms of flattery and compliment. The Surgeon's Daughter
• I gave up smoking last May and decided I needed an incentive to keep off the ciggies and took up running.