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Sentence Examples I once gave up for two years before starting again, so I know how hard it is to keep off the cancer sticks. Dusting with rose powder is recommended for tea roses to keep off black spot and powdery mildew. He would goof off, smile, horse around, do anything to keep off the subject, but I could tell. Even now he is flooded with offers, still he has resolved to keep off since he is averse to writing songs for set tunes. On the visit to the GP I saw a locum who said I must sit about for the next week, not use the computer, and keep off acid fruits. Buoyancy aids should always be worn, and a cagoule will keep off the wind and water. We don't want the sort of garden where children can't kick a ball or have to keep off the grass. I gave up smoking last May and decided I needed an incentive to keep off the ciggies and took up running. It wasn't fancy, by any means, but it would keep off the rain that was already starting to sprinkle. Net strawberries before the fruit starts to show colour, to keep off birds. Umbrellas made as much of a style statement as hats, bags and shoes yesterday as racegoers battled to keep off the rain. Use Genuine Evolis ribbons to keep off defects and to benefit from high-quality printouts and at an optimal cost-per-card. Cotswold District Council and Gloucestershire County Council have been working together to contact travellers and tell them to keep off the field until next week. Ready Mix Concrete, which owns Chigborough Lakes, near Drapers Lane, has put up signs advising people to keep off land close to the lakes near Drapers Farm. They tried to keep off the subject of Hunter's mother by talking about the exam and what they were going to do on Saturday for Halloween but it was difficult. If the patient is not inclined to discuss her ailment, keep off the topic. If you remove and store the lens, attach the lens cap to the projector to keep off dust and dirt. To open one's heart to the others is the good way to protect oneself and to keep off fears. They can be very painful, with people limiting their activity to keep off their sore feet. Anybody who thinks they are able to keep off the Internet the provision of leisure gaming services is crazy. Show More Sentences To preserve the roadbed, vehicles should keep off road shoulders and out of parallel ditches. Please keep off the bank and surrounding areas whilst they are still in a muddy state. To protect human health, a sign indicates that people should keep off a freshly sprayed lawn. Sticking to your healthy eating habits will naturally keep off the weight, without the need for periodic, often ineffective diets. Cocaine is also an appetite suppressant, which has led some women to use it to lose or keep off weight. The fibre in whole grains can also help you feel full, keep off hunger, and therefore help in maintaining a healthy weight. If roller shutters and venetian blinds are closed in good time, they keep off the heat and reduce the need for any additional cooling. Many stops along the way have no shelters whatsoever, while those available are often inadequate, with limited seating and insufficient cover to keep off a shower of rain. Alina Vergana, 41, was sitting beneath a tarpaulin stretched to keep off the burning sun. It'll be something to keep off the darkness now and then. We've already seen a demonstration in Chicago in which the demonstrators dropped their pants that they had purchased at Eddie Bauer, because Eddie Bauer was, according to them, using Teflon to keep off the stains. My uncle also had five guinea fowl to keep off the chicken hawks and sound an alarm if a fox approached the chicken house. No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. When conditions are not suitable for digging, planting, mulching or rotovating we must keep off. While American politicians stoke anti-Chinese hysteria and French ones fuel worries about the disappearance of jobs to eastern Europe, British politicians keep off the subject. True by pre-war standards the price was exorbitant but at least we can be together even though we are only just managing to keep off the bread line. An inarguably concrete form of catastrophe was visible in the Baron's lumberyard, where a massive stack of logs was being sprinkled to keep off beetles. Examples from Classical Literature Maybe when I get back I'd try workin' at it steady if you flatties would only keep off me back. Beneath this grey Italian sky some Italian gamp must keep off these Italian showers. However, I do know that we wore little sacks of asafetida around our necks to keep off diseases, and the white folks wore it too. I does 'member dat chillun had to live wid bags of assfiddy 'round deir necks to keep off ailments. Mighty nigh all de chillun had a little teency bag of asafetida, on a string 'round they necks, to keep off diseases. Den some peoples keeps a bag of asafetida tied round dey neck to keep off sickness. Kainit is said to keep off wireworm, and is recommended in the United States as a preventive against this pest. Sitting by the bed head, with a chicken wing to keep off the few mosquitoes, was the Indian. It was only fair to tell me in the last lines that the face-ache was better, to keep off a fit of remorse. He also carried a large jar full of chlorine water, to keep off all miasmata. They claim it both suits the aster and helps to keep off root-lice. The woods was full of teams and wagons, hitched everywheres, feeding out of the wagon-troughs and stomping to keep off the flies. These they must keep off from their eyes, and so cut the cassia. Put up a forest of props and keep off touch and contamination? The fatigues and the disgusts of that afternoon, the need to forget, the fear which he could not keep off, reawakened his hate for Haldin. The conjurer is employed to work his charms to keep off the evil ones. He wiped the sweat from his face and tied the handkerchief around his neck to keep off the stinging gnats that lurked in the grass. Wolf Larsen motioned Louis to keep off slightly, and we dashed abreast of the boat, not a score of feet to windward. Notwithstanding this, they came on till they were near enough to call to them with a speaking-trumpet, bidding them keep off at their peril. We put a rope fence a hundred feet square around the platform to keep off the common multitude, and that finished the work. Show More Sentences But no matter, his household got up and cooked a quick supper for us, and we brewed a hot punch for ourselves, to keep off consumption. Before going to sleep he was sufficiently wide awake to put a paper bag over his head to keep off the flies. Does the old yager wish the help of the Piegans to keep off the whites? All we ever wore to keep off diseases was asafetida, nothing else. We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. There was a cross in the left boot-heel made with big nails, to keep off the devil. Alas for the power of elderly ladies to keep off neuritis by defiance! I don't mind acknowledging to you that I've got rather a grudging disposition, and want to keep off all intruders. Under foot the leaves were dry, and the foliage of some holly bushes which grew among the deciduous trees was dense enough to keep off draughts. A canopy had been arranged over their boat to keep off the scorching rays of the sun. Well, your mamma thinks you ought not to go beyond the park or garden without some discreet, matronly person like me to accompany you, and keep off all intruders. Now night, in the forests of the equator, is always dangerous, particularly when, like ourselves, one has not the materials for a fire to keep off the beasts of prey. Still anxious to keep off the subject of affection, on which she believed him to have become crazed, she made another effort to keep his mind elsewhere. But later on when they sat outside, smoking furiously to keep off the mosquitoes and watching the fireflies dart in and out amongst the trees, the boy was silent. Find more words! 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