Keeper

//ˈkiːpə//

"Keeper" in a Sentence (24 examples)

He told the bookstore keeper that he would come there again to buy the book that afternoon.

A base service performed for a person of very high degree may become a very honorific office; as for instance the office of a Maid of Honor or of a Lady in Waiting to the Queen, or the King's Master of the Horse or his Keeper of the Hounds.

A furious elephant kicks out the fencing of his enclosure and sends the keeper flying.

He's a goal keeper.

Am I my brother's keeper?

Cain was not his brother's keeper.

The first time Tom brought Mary home, his mother said, "This one's a keeper."

She's a keeper.

Soccer is a sport in which players can't touch the ball with their arms, except for the keeper, who can use his whole body to defend the goal.

You're a keeper.

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Finders keepers; losers weepers.

discreet; chaste; keepers at home

I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers-to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives[…]

Roxbury Russet: Market and keeper.

And mark you, good keepers are some years bad keepers, as this year; and a hard, heavy, unbruisable Apple that really will keep to late on in the season is doubly valuable.

"Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper.

We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.

England should have capitalised on their growing momentum to win, but Darren Bent failed to reproduce the finishing touches that have brought him goals in three successive appearances. He was blocked by Diego Benaglio when he was played in by Wilshere then blazed over the top of an open goal late on after Young's shot was saved by Switzerland's keeper.

The all-whalebone crop, braided with gut, pigskin handle, single brown stitched leather keeper, and close[…]

“When we catch you—” A brief but vivid fantasy of the nose-ringed girl trailing a riding crop's cool leather keeper over her clenched and trembling ass shoved its way eagerly into Fran's imagination. “—we're gonna[…]”

The continuous lines indicate the moments, when the magnet and keeper of equal diameter (10.5mm) act upon each other […]

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