Dictionary Entry

keep at

To persist in.

In a Sentence

“Learning a new language is hard, but if you keep at it, you'll get better.”

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Poetry examples for “keep at”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Roads open about us,
Housetops keep at a distance.

Be beginning; since, no, nothing can be done
To keep at bay
Age and age's evils, hoar hair,

Be beginning; since, no, nothing can be done
To keep at bay
Age and age's evils, hoar hair,

Roads open about us,
Housetops keep at a distance.

And if she had the habit to peep through the casement,
How could I keep at any vast distance?
And so, as I say, on the lady's persistence,

And drive, the way you can, you know, in mowing—-
Keep at their heels and threaten to mow their legs
off.