How to Use keep down in a Sentence

keep down

verb

• Her wet hair was kept down, pushed back out of her face.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 6 June 2023
• Her long waist length hair was kept down and blowing in the wind.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 19 July 2023
• Corn gluten meal also works well and helps keep down the weeds.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2021
• Mulch under the tree to keep down weeds and to prevent the need for mowing right up to the trunk.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
• Use mulch or straw around the plants to keep down weeds and retain moisture.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 Jan. 2021
• But resilience in the economy has been hard to keep down.
  — Christine Romans, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
• Better bill extends the program for just one year, to keep down its price tag.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 15 Dec. 2021
• Backfill the soil, water, and mulch to retain moisture and keep down weeds.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 14 Sep. 2022
• Apply a 3 to 4 inch layer of mulch to conserve moisture and keep down weeds.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 26 May 2020
• But there may be potential state funding that could be found to help keep down costs, Gates said.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2022
• Drought-resistant plants in place of a lawn will keep down your water bill in arid or drought-prone climates.
  — Erica Werner, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2023
• To keep down his water bills, Benjamin Strock installed a turf front yard a few years ago and switched to low-flow shower heads.
  — Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• Since 2021, intense winters in the region have kept down survival rates.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
• Be sure to add a layer of mulch around the bushes to keep down weeds and retain moisture, says Wilhelmi.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 16 May 2023
• Usually by this time, the old plastic that keeps down weeds was removed to get the fields ready for tilling, Paul’s favorite farm chore.
  — Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
• Water well after planting, and mulch to protect the bulbs from cold, retain moisture and keep down weeds.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2023
• Perhaps worst of all, to keep down the roughly $500-million-per-ship cost of the hulls, the Navy chose to arm them only with light weaponry—guns and short-range self-defense missiles.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The new water on the dry lake bed threatens to damage infrastructure designed to keep down dust, a problem that emerged when the lake was drained decades ago.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• Others are kept down the block, at a space used for shipping and storage, and at a studio on Chrystie Street where Mr. Derian makes decoupage, a type of cut-and-paste art.
  — Christopher Barnard, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Use mulch to preserve moisture and keep down weeds, which compete for water and nutrients.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
• Apple’s skill at keeping down the price of the SE is to take an earlier design and change it almost not at all apart from color, perhaps.
  — David Phelan, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Four states have implemented gas tax holidays to keep down prices this year.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 22 June 2022
• Most any good deer cartridge will do the job, but keep in mind that big boars can be tough to put down and keep down because of the thick cartilage shield protecting their vitals.
  — Michael Dickerson, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2023
• Wagner is hoping to keep down the number of players going both ways to take advantage of the team’s overall speed.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2023
• When Ward led us through the gate across the street from the coal plant, two trailers were the only infrastructure in sight, part of a watering operation to keep down dust.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• The Zimbabwe central bank last month offered bakers access to foreign currency to keep down the price of bread.
  — Lesley Wroughton, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
• The Bank’s actions have helped keep down the cost of government borrowing; even with the massive deficit, ten-year gilts offer an annual return of a mere 0.2%.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2020
• Regardless of what happens, history tells us record-breakers aren’t kept down for long.
  — Amin Touri, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2023
• Republicans across the country blame Trump for midterm election defeats that cost them control of the Senate and kept down their margin of victory in the House.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
• Domestic oil production is at record highs, helping to keep down gasoline prices.
  — Fatima Hussein and Josh Boak, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024