in keeping
Example Sentences
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White House reporters captured the moment on their smartphones and tweeted evidence of the president’s questionable grasp of fish keeping.
From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2017
Stay in contact with the fish, keeping only light rod pressure, while the drag does its thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no fear as to the fish keeping, for in a very short time after being drawn from the water they were frozen stiff and hard.
From True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Guert did little besides shoot and fish, keeping our larder well supplied with trout, pigeons, squirrels, and such other game as the season would allow, occasionally knocking over something in the shape of poor venison.
From Satanstoe by Cooper, James Fenimore
As the water rises, the fish, keeping by the sides of the stream, are guided by the side wings of the weir into its narrow opening, out of which they cannot make their way.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
