Sentence examples for been kept in a from inspiring English sources

They had been kept in a desk belonging to Austen.

He cannot speak and can barely stand, having apparently been kept in a kind of dungeon.

The apartment has been kept in a state of entropy since Mr. Krasinski's death in 2004.

For decades, the Middle East has been kept in a political deep freeze.

St. Francis has since been kept in a hermetically sealed glass case and displayed only on special private occasions.

The police say that the cooking oil might have been kept in a container that once held the pesticide.

He had been kept in a blacked-out cell, unable to see or hear anything beyond it.

The statue, which was commissioned by the National Woman's Party in 1921, had been kept in a downstairs corridor.

Until now, Mr. Quarrie said, the collection had been kept "in a cupboard" at the Earl of Macclesfield's home.

Tasted as if it had been kept in a cellar for several decades and only just released.

I mean, he looks sad, like he's been kept in a cage, but you've got to respect them for trying.