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keep pace

VERB
  1. maintain the same pace
    The child cannot keep step with his big brother

How To Use keep pace In A Sentence

  • These two lads started on these trees, and had them falling like ninepins, it was taking the rest of us all our time to keep pace stripping them. Work Camp 934 L
  • But I make it up when two superbikes decide they'll cut me up, and we effortlessly keep pace as they attempt to shoot off into the distance.
  • When we see the _helleborus foetidus_ and _helleborus niger_ blowing at Christmas, the _helleborus hyemalis_ in January, and the _helleborus viridis_ as soon as ever it emerges out of the ground, we do not wonder, because they are kindred plants that we expect should keep pace the one with the other; but other congenerous vegetables differ so widely in their time of flowering, that we cannot but admire. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
  • The horse comfortably jumped the final fence and won by 10 lengths as favourite Ibis Rochelais failed to keep pace.
  • The company is struggling to keep pace with changes in the market.
  • The mortar can also be mounted in a vehicle, firing through the roof hatch, to keep pace with a mechanised advance.
  • New and regular donors are now needed in order to help keep pace with demand from the region's hospitals.
  • She works so fast I cannot keep pace.
  • The efforts of the Soviets to keep pace with American expansion brought them to the point of implosion.
  • But so long as the whale shark made no discernible attempt to propel itself through the water I could, by finning vigorously, just about keep pace.
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