Sentence examples for keeps at bay from inspiring English sources

Clearly the spareness of the room is an object not of advanced taste but of want, of not having the things that advanced taste keeps at bay.

It also subtly keeps at bay those who aren't as committed to the power and beauty of gems as the store's owner Esther Laporte.

Her inner conflict determinedly keeps at bay her well-meaning sister, Claire (Johanna Day), a nonmathematician who is understandably exasperated by her sister's obstinate antics.

Somehow, though, it always sounds like a band with more heart than scholarship, which keeps at bay the worrisome feeling that you're watching an anachronism.

The mall offers elegant, simulated pedestrian streets, edged with trees and lined with cafés and luxury-brand stores, all under a translucent glass roof that admits natural light but keeps at bay the hostile outside temperatures, which can rise above a hundred and twenty degrees.

As it was, I found myself squirming in discomfort more often than I would have liked, not laughing but wincing and sensing a desperation in the play that the production keeps at bay, that perhaps Mr. Durang could not bring himself to confront.

The real world was kept at bay.

Disorder had to be kept at bay.

Citizens were to be kept at bay.

Vested interests once kept at bay may reassert themselves.

With luck, outside horrors can be kept at bay.