Dictionary Entry
To persist or continue.
In a Sentence
“Keep on trucking!”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “keep on”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →But you don't know music! Wherefore
Keep on casting pearls
To a--poet? All I care for
Read full poem →But you don't know music! Wherefore
Keep on casting pearls
To a--poet? All I care for
Read full poem →That they could hear tell of was scarified.
They made him keep on gnawing till he whined.
Then that same smarty someone said to look--
Read full poem →Now run.—-Get out your documents! You see
I have to keep on the good side of Anne.
I'm a great boy to think of number one.
Read full poem →of you as you sit. It is about an hour’s walk to the edge of it. It is
a sort of trap in the mountains. When you get in sight of it, _keep on
going down_.” This he said very solemnly.
Read full poem →(Tallying Earth’s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)
Ever with pleas’d smile I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owning--as, first, I here and now