How to Use keep/stay out of trouble in a Sentence

keep/stay out of trouble

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  • Winlock said that offers a place for kids and teens to socialize, do their homework, and most importantly, stay out of trouble.
    The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024
  • His mom pushed him to do the projects, to stay out of trouble for the summer.
    oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2022
  • But Joe can never seem to stay out of trouble for long.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The Browns gave Hunt incentives to stay out of trouble and perform well.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The Pogues just can’t manage to stay out of trouble, as seen in the first trailer for Outer Banks season three.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2023
  • As part of that agreement, Biden was to stay out of trouble and submit to drug testing over a two-year period.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2023
  • That is a good thing because the left-hander couldn’t stay out of trouble Thursday night at Progressive Field.
    Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 26 May 2022
  • The Oxford High dean of students had testified that the shooter altered the drawing in an effort to stay out of trouble.
    Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Can the internet’s favorite rapper stay out of trouble?
    Jayson Buford, SPIN, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The Chrisley family can’t seem to stay out of trouble, as son Kyle was arrested Tuesday on assault charges.
    Evan Rosen New York Daily News (tns), al, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Advocates believe mental health programs will save money in the long run by helping people get stable, get jobs and stay out of trouble.
    Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
  • In recent years, courts have adopted consumer prices as the sole standard to judge whether a market is too concentrated: As long as prices stay low, companies stay out of trouble.
    Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 28 July 2020
  • Cockrell met a counselor at Parkway Central Middle School who started a basketball team to help at-risk students stay out of trouble and encourage them to keep their grades up.
    NBC News, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Traditionally, grizzly mothers in North America tend their offspring for at least two years, teaching them to find food and keep out of trouble before nudging them to live on their own.
    New York Times, 23 July 2021
  • Called Bosses Not Bangers, the nonprofit uses basketball games to draw kids in, then connects them with resources to become entrepreneurs, learn job skills and generally stay out of trouble.
    Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Gutekunst is gambling, though, that Wyatt can stay out of trouble while causing trouble for opposing offenses.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 16 July 2022
  • The bank also lashed out with allegations that Epstein wielded political influence in the Virgin Islands to stay out of trouble.
    Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • His approach: track whales by satellite to document the degree to which they are actually lured to fishing operations and other human activities, and ultimately to use that data to find ways of helping whales stay out of trouble.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020

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