Sentence examples for kept a sign from inspiring English sources

He kept a sign on the his fence: "No trespassing.

When John Simanton was a lieutenant commander in the Navy, he kept a sign on his desk.

William Andrew Allison, 92, was also there that day, and he has kept a sign from the march in his closet ever since.

On his desk he kept a sign with the French phrase translated as "Let the Good Times Roll," and even in recent weeks could be seen drinking wine or a martini with lunch at the Union Square Cafe.

The waterfront estate, where Hepburn once kept a sign that read, "Please Go Away," originally had an asking price of $12 million, but the price later came down to $7.5 million some months later.

President Harry Truman popularized the words, "The Buck Stops Here" and kept a sign of the phrase on his desk in the Oval Office.

In the 1980's, the restaurant, in an effort to seem even more clublike than it already was, kept a sign-in book.

I now keep a sign on the bulletin board in my office that reads: "Write What Scares You".

These days, Baker keeps a sign with this message in his office at Great American Ballpark: "The most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.

I do remember reading about someone — it might have been Virginia Woolf — saying that Henry James used to keep a sign on his desk with the exhortation "Dramatize, dramatize".

Jon Lovitz, as Dickie's beyond-boorish agent, keeps a sign on his desk that says, "Let's do lunch," and falls all over himself to donate his vital organs to further his clients' careers.