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Discover LudwigThe phrase "kept at bay" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to mean 'kept away or prevented from causing trouble or harm.' For example, "The security guards managed to keep the angry protesters at bay."
Idiom
Keep at bay.
If you keep someone or something at bay, you maintain a safe distance from them.
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Disorder had to be kept at bay.
The real world was kept at bay.
Citizens were to be kept at bay.
Vested interests once kept at bay may reassert themselves.
As usual, most journalists were kept at bay.
But they had been kept at bay by razor wire.
With luck, outside horrors can be kept at bay.
But reality cannot be kept at bay indefinitely.
So far, the treacherous hyperbole has been kept at bay.
It was there that death was kept at bay.
Fortunately, sentimentality of an extreme kind is kept at bay.
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