How to Use keep up in a Sentence

keep up

verb
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  • The true tests are there and the Sox have to keep up with the other teams on their street.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • At the same time keep up the good work of knowing your worth.
    — Moraya Seeger Degeare, Lmft, refinery29.com, 6 July 2023
  • Leftovers will keep up to 3 days in the fridge, or can be frozen.
    — Christopher Michel, Country Living, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The world could be keeping up with the Baldwin bunch very soon!
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The Sparks couldn’t keep up with New York’s star power.
    — Colin Beazley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • And the supply hasn’t been able to keep up with demand.
    — Nik Popli, Time, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But Sweeney still has to keep up the trappings of stardom.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 28 July 2022
  • But while that’s great for the kids, what about the parents that are left trying to keep up?
    — Evan Porter, Parents, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The soils themselves are filled to the brim with water and are struggling to keep up.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jan. 2023
  • But keeping up with fast-moving change doesn’t have to break the bank.
    — Hitha Herzog, Parents, 10 July 2023
  • The battle is for better wages, wages that the strikers say have not kept up with the times.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Make sure your router can keep up with your phone and vice versa.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
  • For those of you who've been unable to keep up with the rolling spectacle, here's the gist.
    — Holly Thomas, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Corio, as he’s nicknamed, strives to be the best and keep up appearances.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The total is high but the close spread indicates that the books feel that Rodgers will be able to keep up.
    — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 25 Dec. 2022
  • This pack of four is designed to keep up with your daily use of the air fryer.
    — Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The eight-knot speed, which lets Hercules keep up with sharks, comes courtesy of four large thrusters at the stern.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The key is for the developers to try and keep up with demand.
    — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 6 July 2022
  • There has been so much news in such a short period of time it’s been hard to keep up.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2024
  • The challenge now for Walmsley is to keep up the drumbeat of new medicines.
    — Ashleigh Furlong, Fortune Europe, 21 May 2024
  • But, don’t forget to keep up that momentum over the ride.
    — Shelby Wax, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Unions say the pay boost would not keep up with inflation, which reached 8.3% last month.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • It’s as if the aging painter was trying to keep up with the times, with young Giorgione and Titian, and couldn’t quite get the hang of it.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Luckily, the paddock is a great place to keep up with the drivers’ street-style ’fits.
    — Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2024
  • So much and so fast that companies can’t keep up with the demand.
    — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • As a guy who spends hours under and on the water, Hamilton needs a dive watch that can keep up.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The Cavaliers jumped out to 15 straight wins to begin the year and have kept up that pace even with four losses on the year.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • But child-care programs have not been able to keep up, even as many charge parents more.
    — Elliot Haspel, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
  • Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti will need to bump Harbaugh to keep up with escalating coach salaries.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Whether chasing after the ball or trying to keep up with the action, Archie is always enthusiastic.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025

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