How to Use keep/stay mum in a Sentence

keep/stay mum

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• Noah knew the stamp had been approved, but had to keep mum about it.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2022
• Robinson chose to stay mum on why there isn’t a Swift song on the film’s soundtrack.
  — Time, 16 Sep. 2022
• But in a book that goes to great lengths to dissect the transmission of habits and ideas from father and son, Elon is allowed to stay mum.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• And since some of those at the center of the melee have gone on to become respectable citizens, there are reasons for many to keep mum.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
• The actress, singer and TV host was able to stay mum on the subject, a feat that surprised even her closest family members.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
• Spectators must sign agreements to keep mum on the results until then.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 31 July 2020
• Perhaps some Asian Americans also stay mum because feel that the fight isn't theirs.
  — Shanon Maglente, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2021
• The United States, in coordination with its own key allies in Europe and Asia, agreed on its need to keep mum as well.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2023
• As his mother always knew, the way to retain popular support for the monarchy is to keep mum on politics.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• Jaisinghani has never been one to keep mum about her recipes, even launching India1948.com as a sort of free recipe diary, accessible to all.
  — Megha McSwain, Chron, 29 Aug. 2022
• But, as has been the case through the pandemic, the county continued to keep mum about where, exactly, outbreaks are happening.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
• The select customers signed a non-disclosure agreement to keep mum about their experience of owning or driving one of the first Lyriqs with any parties outside of GM.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
• For the wife of a furrier who had grown up in the outer boroughs and had an accent to match, Ms. Mason’s suggestion was to pretend to have a cold and stay mum and let her husband do the talking during the board interview.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Biden and the Democrats stay mum All this activity will generate more revelations and more turmoil for the 2024 campaigns – at least the Republican ones.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• Both women have dated men and women over the years, and for Da Brat, the rapper has shared that the decision to stay mum about her romantic life previously had to do with the past stigma being out in the 90s and early ’00s came with.
  — Essence, 4 Aug. 2021
• Harrison will receive a massive payout to step away and stay mum about his departure, according to Deadline.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 29 July 2021
• He had been horrified when his old friend, Ernest Hemingway, counseled him to keep mum about the Stalinist plot against the anarcho-syndicalists.
  — John Chamberlain, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• Actress and Goop entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow understands why so many famous women keep mum on the subject.
  — Jessica Matlin, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Mar. 2021
• So can employers now never require me to stay mum about the company as a condition of receiving severance?
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 26 Feb. 2023
• Despite having to keep mum, Davy says the makeup responds accordingly by pivoting to minimalism.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 17 Nov. 2021
• Olivia Wilde continues to stay mum regarding her relationship with musician Harry Styles.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024