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keep to
verb
- to adhere to or stand by or cause to adhere to or stand by
to keep to a promise
- to confine or be confined to
- keep to oneself
- intr to avoid the society of others
- tr to refrain from sharing or disclosing
- keep oneself to oneselfto avoid the society of others
Example Sentences
Overwhelmed with customers during the Labor Day weekend, Gonzalez was unable to keep to her plan to buy a lottery scratcher on her lunch break, she told The Times in an interview.
“They keep to themselves and are much more discreet than the others. We see them very little,” says Claire Millot, a volunteer for Salam, an NGO that supports migrants in Dunkirk.
But experts say that if treated with caution and left alone, alligators tend keep to themselves.
On Wednesday night, a court ordered that protesters in the capital, Abuja, keep to the National stadium, which is located on the city’s outskirts.
It said: "From now on in GMP, if any strip search is contemplated, the detainee must be asked whether they have something with them they know they would not be allowed to keep, to give the detainee the option of offering items up."
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