keeping out
Example Sentences
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The entry price also serves as its own screening, keeping out travelers who might treat a ceremony like a cheap all-you-can-eat buffet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Getting the devices out means keeping out the importuning virtual world, with its entertainers and weirdos and cyberbullies, and creating space for psychic and physical rest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Blocked from proceeding by car, they went the remaining several miles on foot, past law enforcement checkpoints keeping out unauthorized vehicles and dozens of burning structures.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
However Hein had no chance of keeping out Antoine Semenyo’s strike, which hit Omar Rekik as he tried to close the effort down and dropped into the far corner.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024
“Good manners can mean keeping out of others’ personal business.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
