keep up
verb
kept up; keeping up; keeps up
1
: to keep adequately informed or up-to-date
keep up on international affairs
2
: to continue without interruption
rain kept up all night
3
: to maintain contact or relations with someone
keep up with old friends
Examples of keep up in a Sentence
let's hope that old air conditioner keeps up through this heat wave
kept the house up while the owners were gone
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Excepting a limited few number of supercars, there’s very little that can hope to keep up with this vehicle in a boulevard sprint.
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Mark Ewing, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Over the course of not quite three decades, hunters killed off so many California sea otters that Russia’s fur business became unprofitable, and those loooong supply lines to the politically fraught homeland became even harder to keep up.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
But the app struggled to innovate and keep up with the evolving communication landscape.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
The big picture: Skype, a big hit during the early 2000s, failed to keep up with competitors and wasn't able to claw back during the pandemic when demand for video calling spiked.
—Angrej Singh, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
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Mark Ewing, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Over the course of not quite three decades, hunters killed off so many California sea otters that Russia’s fur business became unprofitable, and those loooong supply lines to the politically fraught homeland became even harder to keep up.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
But the app struggled to innovate and keep up with the evolving communication landscape.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
The big picture: Skype, a big hit during the early 2000s, failed to keep up with competitors and wasn't able to claw back during the pandemic when demand for video calling spiked.
—Angrej Singh, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for keep up
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“Keep up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keep%20up. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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