Sentence examples for keeps off from inspiring English sources
verb
Third person singular of keep off
Their profits depend on a capacity shortage on the networks that keeps off newcomers.
It's hot in the dolphin suit, but it keeps off the rain and hail.
The vertical quilting makes it lovely and warm and the hood keeps off unwanted rain, while the spotted cotton lining and contrasting zips give a hint of colour.
A photograph, for example, becomes by analogy "a pool of still water"; a hat, "a wide-crowned tree that keeps off the rain".
Nowadays entrance to Merton after 11pm is strictly monitored to ensure that only members of the college can get in; a small troop of students volunteer to point out trip hazards, to guarantee no glass is brought in to the quadrangle - the port has to be drunk out of plastic bottles - and, of course, make sure that everyone keeps off the grass.
The government hopes to cut the combined federal-and-state deficit from almost 10% of GDP five years ago to about 5.2% in 2007-08 (if you ignore the liabilities it keeps off its balance sheet, such as arrears on fertiliser subsidies).But 2008 may bring an early general election, which is never an auspicious time for fiscal restraint.
The switch keeps off-state until it is subjected to an acceleration when fuze is launched normally.
I think they keep off stupid people.
