keep in English:

He kept talking.

Milk has to be kept at a relatively low temperature.

I drank some of the milk and kept the rest in the refrigerator.

We kept track of all our expenses while we were in Australia.

Picasso kept drawing pictures until he was 91 years old.

The parcel will be kept at the post office until you call for it.

Tom managed to escape from the room where his kidnappers had kept him locked up.

I wish I'd kept up my Chinese. I need it for my job.

From the moment he arrived there, he kept on bothering his doctor to tell him when he would be able to go home.

Lewis and Clark kept very careful records.

The bus was so crowded that I was kept standing all the way to the station.

You kept nodding off during that lecture, didn't you?

I found the book so interesting that I kept on reading it until daybreak.

That secret can't be kept forever.

Tom kept a list of all the food he'd eaten that week.

It's a surprise.

Half a million children still face malnutrition in Niger.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

It almost scared me not to see you online for a whole day.

If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

He compiled a Japanese folklore anthology for use in schools.

Your words of encouragement meant a lot to me.

Your dream of becoming a baseball player will come true if you try hard.

Once you skip a lesson, it's hard to catch up with your classmates.

The policeman talked to the children in as friendly a manner as he could.

Hypothetically a person can live a perfect life without sinning.

He is a primary school teacher, so he is used to dealing with children.

In addition to taking the regular tests, we have to hand in a long essay.

Will it be necessary for us to buy a book for this class?

Who can read the heroic deeds of brave men without a feeling of respect and admiration?

Cast iron retains heat for a long time. This soil retains water.

to retain humidity

And the more unequal societies are more likely also to retain the death penalty.

retaining wall

The company has retained its position as market leader.

ability to attract and retain good employees

The number of observations is retained in each bin.

If you use a computer, you can retain information.

I'd retain that old hat if I were you.

He sacrificed his outstanding career to retain his dignity.

the most chalanging thing about producing film was to be able to truly retain Jane's vision.

The atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet and retained by the Earth's gravity.

I retained all memories from this summer.

He said the current staff of about 10 people would be retained.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.