Sentence examples for kept around from inspiring English sources

I was kept around for kicks at a fraternity house.

Players come and go, and few are kept around as treasures.

So far that means that cases are rehashed, and possible killers are kept around like spare parts.

But those three were sent to the minors Tuesday, and Hunter was kept around because he can score goals.

One of the pastures on the Pages' ranch was full of hobbled old gladiators, kept around for semen or sentiment.

Also there is the wooden dresser, still full of odd bathing suits kept around for the guests who forgot theirs.

Before he left, he noticed a Browning.22-caliber rifle that she kept around to kill armadillos and scare blackbirds and squirrels away from her bird feeder.

"He was actually kept around in the Marine Corps a lot longer than he would have been before the war," he told me.

Mr. Zaman said that his family had two, a German shepherd used as a guard dog and a small Shih Tzu kept around the house.

Elena asked the assistant texting behind the high desk to bring Sonia some water and one of the folding chairs they kept around for rich or infirm visitors.

Left alone, he grabbed a Winchester pump-action shotgun he had kept around since the store was robbed 20 years ago.