How to Use keep score in a Sentence

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• The coaches keep score, and the group that comes out on top wins.
  — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 19 Aug. 2020
• How can you guys keep score of all the cool things you guys do?
  — Joey Hayden, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
• But that’s not the only way to keep score in the final round.
  — Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• And for old time’s sake, keep score on the back of an envelope.
  — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
• What didn't change in a frigid final round at Champions Golf Club was how to keep score.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• One friend borrowed a knife from the other to sharpen a pencil being used to keep score.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
• If your dad has a competitive side, keep score at each game and tally up the points at the end to name a winner.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 29 Apr. 2022
• Nevertheless, don't keep score; that will only hurt in the long run.
  — Nuno Prego Ramos, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• Each time the broadcaster made a Swift reference, there would be a dinging noise to keep score.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• Now the pair start to keep score, tallying up a point each time one of them says something that destabilizes the other.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• So young children can enjoy the game, put the ladders close together or don't keep score.
  — Laura Wheatman Hill, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
• These instances of great personal risk and sacrifice are one of the ways that world powers keep score.
  — Sean Lavery, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2020
• The bands bring gameplay to life allowing users to keep score, punch blocks and collect virtual coins.
  — Elizabeth Montgomery, The Arizona Republic, 1 Dec. 2020
• My grandma would keep score with a notepad and neat cursive, listing each of seven rounds, our scores and a star when someone got a joker.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 Nov. 2020
• The threesome did not keep score, and Matsuyama — true to his nature — had little to say about the experience.
  — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2021
• For those who are looking to just keep score, the ScoreBand will easily log your play on each hole and then calculate your score after nine and 18 holes.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 6 June 2022
• The venue will leverage technology to keep score as guests enjoy a modern twist on putt-putt golf that includes cocktails and food.
  — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 12 July 2021
• Still physically fit in his late 70s, Fryatt played tennis but couldn’t keep score or remember which side of the net he was supposed to be on.
  — Jimmy Golen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• Still physically fit in his late 70s, Fryatt played tennis but couldn’t keep score or remember which side of the net he was supposed to be on.
  — Jimmy Golen, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• This entry-level golf allows avid players to keep score, track total distance played and total time, as well as provide yardages to the front, back and middle of the green.
  — Fiona Tapp, CNN Underscored, 24 Nov. 2020
• There is nothing unusual about this tendency to keep score.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
• If climbing is a personal journey of discovery, then why keep score?
  — New York Times, 12 May 2021
• Billions of venture capital dollars have sloshed into startups, and there are too many funds to keep score, many of them with only a handful of people on staff.
  — Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
• One purpose of etiquette is to restore peace after human beings misbehave — not to keep score.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
• My mother would keep score, and my uncles — who were hypercritical of whatever the Sox were doing — would do a running play-by-play.
  — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• Oswego and Yorkville did keep score, however, and the Panthers would have prevailed 40-41 if the finishes had been tabulated.
  — Rick Armstrong, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• No notepads and pens are needed to keep score, all of that is taken care of by automatic, electronic scoreboards located at each hole within the courses.
  — Teri Webster, Dallas News, 23 Sep. 2021
• The wristbands, according to Universal, will work in tandem with a smartphone app, which will allow guests to keep score and collect coins, among other interactions.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• UDisc, a cellphone app that allows players to find courses and keep score, registered its busiest month ever last August, well into the pandemic.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2021
• Milder reactions such as headaches or fatigue may go unnoticed and registries rarely, if ever, keep score of instances where neither mother nor offspring experienced negative side effects.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan/undark, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024