keep under
to remain or cause to remain below (a surface)
(tr, adverb) to cause to remain unconscious
(tr, adverb) to hold in submission
Words Nearby keep under
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How to use keep under in a sentence
Especially with casting, those things are hard to keep under wraps.
The Leaner, Meaner Season 2 of ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ | Jason Lynch | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith the big hair and big personalities alone, Diane Scali, the store's owner, had a lot to keep under control.
The factory had indeed become a charnel-house, it being useless for the chiefs to admonish their men to keep under cover.
Rule of the Monk | Giuseppe GaribaldiIf I may offer a suggestion, keep under cover right here until after dark, then take the trail for our camp.
The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge | Frank Gee PatchinPhiloctetes filled the Greek stage with his lamentations; Hercules himself, when in fury, does not keep under his grief.
The Aesthetical Essays | Friedrich Schiller
An effusively amiable evangelist bobs up almost immediately,—one of those fellows whom no amount of snubbing can keep under.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska | Charles Warren StoddardThey couldn't keep under cover all the way, for they had to cross the bridge, and I happened to see 'em then.
The Black Pearl | Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
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