Usar "keep off" en una oración
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keep off
1. a hood to keep off the worst of the weather
2. If they could keep off the
3. Keep off the sand
4. “Now y’all put those ribs down, and keep off the hooch jus’ a lil’ while, cause the managers and directors of the Country Cotton Candy fair are proud to welcome our very own benefactor, well-known and loved for his many contributions to the community, especially the ribs, Mr
5. and keep off the intruder
6. 16 Others build their nests and hatch their young in the tops of mountains and on the cliffs of valleys and the holes and tops of trees and keep off the intruder
7. Next to the mole, I had to keep off other invaders
8. After sharing half the packet of biscuits, finishing the water, scrabbling piles of bracken and grass together for a mattress and heaping a rough tepee with leaves, grass and anything else we vainly hoped would keep off cold and dew, we huddled down, hungry and thirsty, for a long night
9. Studies also show that long-term social support or accountability to a group or partner greatly increases the odds you’ll keep off the weight you’ve lost as well
10. mine, keep off it
11. “We have our reasons to keep off strangers
12. A sign may ask you to “keep off the grass,” but while on it the law of
13. What that means is that these fit adults were once fat kids, and that since then, they have been frantically trying to keep off the extra pounds that they still see as part of their core identity
14. Are they chemically fertilized mono-green, stylized keep off the over watered lawns, or walkways lined with edible plants, fruits and vegetables, where the hands of children, the hungry, and homeless are welcome to pick and loiter? Can you imagine a stranger eating a hand gathered meal under your welcome to all front yard apple garden? Perennial parking strips turned into rows of abundance? Green spaces that are open invitations to a feast where nothing is owned, but all is shared 19
15. had dogs, she felt she could hide this way and keep off the streets for
16. I hope you understand that I am willing to hear you talk about most things, and that you will need no further warning to keep off the few swampy places
17. And never having had cause in her life to be afraid of personal remarks, she took what the children said as so many compliments, except that she rather wished they would keep off her hair
18. “And you keep off them girls, there Besty, you filthy animal eh?” Johnny enjoyed this irregular power he seemed to be wielding over the man's nerves
19. on, though, and had a roof to keep off sun and rain, so it was
20. "You should tell him to keep off the drink," pronounced the great cashier
21. drawn cotton bonnets with great flapping curtains to keep off the sun, and gloves to prevent their hands being wounded by the stubble
22. She pulled down the veil, saying hastily, "It was mostly to keep off
23. Now night, in the forests of the equator, is always dangerous, particularly when, like ourselves, one has not the materials for a fire to keep off the beasts of prey
24. That’s what my meeting with Lyle was like: those first loose, horrible ten minutes, when the grown-ups have left, and neither kid knows what the other one wants, so you stand there, near the TV they’ve told you to keep off, fiddling with the antenna
25. In the first house where we stopped, when the woman who served us saw the scar on my forehead, she crossed herself and put out two fingers towards me, to keep off the evil eye
26. -The heat of the sun on the snow can cause avalanches so before noon travel in shaded areas—keep off those exposed to the sun
27. In tropical climates it is always better to raise the bed into the air, both to keep off wet earth and to provide a current of cooling air
28. I sometimes dream of a larger and more populous house, standing in a golden age, of enduring materials, and without gingerbread work, which shall still consist of only one room, a vast, rude, substantial, primitive hall, without ceiling or plastering, with bare rafters and purlins supporting a sort of lower heaven over one's head—useful to keep off rain and snow, where the king and queen posts stand out to receive your homage, when you have done reverence to the prostrate Saturn of an older dynasty on stepping over the sill; a cavernous house, wherein you must reach up a torch upon a pole to see the roof; where some may live in the fireplace, some in the recess of a window, and some on settles, some at one end of the hall, some at another, and some aloft on rafters with the spiders, if they choose; a house which you have got into when you have opened the outside door, and the ceremony is over; where the weary traveller may wash, and eat, and converse, and sleep, without further journey; such a shelter as you would be glad to reach in a tempestuous night, containing all the essentials of a house, and nothing for house-keeping; where you can see all the treasures of the house at one view, and everything hangs upon its peg, that a man should use; at once kitchen, pantry, parlor, chamber, storehouse, and garret; where you can see so necessary a thing, as a barrel or a ladder, so convenient a thing as a cupboard, and hear the pot boil, and pay your respects to the fire that cooks your dinner, and the oven that bakes your bread, and the necessary furniture and utensils are the chief ornaments; where the washing is not put out, nor the fire, nor the mistress, and perhaps you are sometimes requested to move from off the trap-door, when the cook would descend into the cellar, and so learn whether the ground is solid or hollow beneath you without stamping
29. Behind them stood their horses, ranged in a circle to keep off the wind
30. “Oh, to keep off dogs
31. At length she expressed a wish to view the game closer; whereupon in some mysterious manner, the lacqueys and other officious agents (especially one or two ruined Poles of the kind who keep offering their services to successful gamblers and foreigners in general) at once found and cleared a space for the old lady among the crush, at the very centre of one of the tables, and next to the chief croupier; after which they wheeled her chair thither
32. "Ech!" Pyotr Stepanovitch waved his hand as though to keep off the overwhelming penetration of the inquirer
33. He was pouring dust upon his head and blowing it over his back, both because he enjoyed a dust bath and because it helped to keep off the flies
34. The object of the troops under my immediate command was to keep off all hostile persons, whether of the enemy or persons unfriendly to the invention, that he might have every opportunity to make his experiment with success
35. I have been rather opposed to them in the Committee of Naval Affairs, not because I was opposed to an augmentation of the Navy, but because I thought it more to the advantage of the country to build frigates and sloops of war at present; and if, hereafter, when we have sailors plenty to man the large ships with, it should be thought best to have larger ships, it may be very well to build them; but, at present, our resources are inadequate to build the seventy-fours and the ten frigates, and say eight or ten sloops of war, which are absolutely necessary for the protection of our seacoast, in order to keep off the British gun-brigs or privateers
36. The fact of his having done a fine thing, or of his doing fine things habitually, acts not as an attraction to others, but as a warning to them to keep off