How to Use keep going in a Sentence

keep going

phrasal verb
  • Talk about a chart that keeps going up and to the right.
    Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 6 June 2024
  • But the venue only cut the PA — not the stage — so the band kept going.
    Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
  • My dad’s house was on this small hill, but the hill kept going.
    Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 20 July 2024
  • Instead, the book just keeps going, trundling through the years.
    Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • There was a mixture of cheers and boos from the crowd but Barkley kept going.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • The goal at the time was to keep going, not to achieve something massive.
    As Told To Lindy Segal, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Somehow life keeps going again and again, even in the worst chaos.
    Dina Gachman Daniel Arnold, New York Times, 25 May 2024
  • Here’s what Cherif does behind the scenes to keep going.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 25 July 2023
  • In the scuffle, the man is pushed to the ground while the suspects keep going through his pockets.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • So, if the number on the scale doesn't change right away, don't give up—keep going.
    Sarah Felbin, Women's Health, 18 Apr. 2023
  • So to be able to get that out and get through that allowed Jack to keep going.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Bonds are in control as the long end of the yield curve keeps going higher.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The bomb kept going until the second day in the morning.
    CBS News, 12 May 2024
  • And that arm touched it and kept going and going and going.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Dark though things have been, keep going— Faith has got a way of growing.
    Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Love, the act of love, like the series of green lights, was moving me forward, telling me to keep going.
    Marissa Charles, Peoplemag, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Someone who doesn’t let up and keeps going for the full six minutes.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
  • That kept going in that fashion until maybe The Shield.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Apr. 2024
  • They are made to keep going for years and this is reflected in the design.
    Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Or keep going back and forth an hour until the sun explodes?
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Choose what works best for you and what will motivate you to keep going.
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But for many other guests on board, the party kept going.
    Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2024
  • The fire kept going out, then being relit, a trick candle on a cake made of clouds.
    Mary Jo Bang, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Wharton copied it like a pattern — and kept going from there.
    Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Oftentimes my wife and I just play her music and just smile and shed a tear and keep going.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Most cars of this caliber are made for track days and short bursts of fun but the 550 Maranello seems eager to keep going.
    Trinity Francis, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Our eyes keep going back and forth between her arches and her warm glowy blush.
    Annie Blay, Allure, 6 May 2024
  • And then there’s the curious case of Cartier, which keeps going up.
    Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 26 July 2024
  • Her goal is to pass the torch so that her culture, which has survived for hundreds of years, can keep going.
    Tanay Howard, Parents, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Musk, having found an appreciative audience, kept going, finding new ways to suggest that the vice president was not worth the trouble of assassinating.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024

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