Keep-away Sentence Examples

Just keep away from the bad boys.

Onions can also keep away slugs, aphids and other pests.

Plant trees on the east and west sides of your home to keep away the sun's rays.

A dressing of soot will keep away these pests.

On receiving the accusation the king-archon by proclamation warned the accused to keep away from temples and other places forbidden to such persons.

My Fast and Hajj, I will complete, And keep away from self conceit.

He cant keep away from the amazing wooden xylophones.

This is why she enjoys going into virtual reality, she can't keep away from it because she suddenly becomes incandescent.

Do not, we beseech you, keep away in the distance of your own unbelief.

The other custom is the use of the turndun, as the Australians call a little fish-shaped piece of wood tied to a string, and waved so as to produce a loud booming and whirring noise and keep away the profane, especially women.

As a logical consequence of this view of disease the mode of treatment among peoples in the lower stages of culture is mainly magical; they endeavour to propitiate the evil spirits by sacrifice, to expel them by spells, &c. (see Exorcism), to drive them away by blowing, &c.; conversely we find the Khonds attempt to keep away smallpox by placing thorns and brushwood in the paths leading to places decimated by that disease, in the hope of making the disease demon retrace his steps.

Hazel rods were taken by Irish settlers to the US to keep away snakes.

Like the Lambert Kay Boundary Repellent, the product produces a smell that cats find distasteful and helps ensure they will keep away from it.

When the young plants are 3 inches in height, dibble them out again either into a frame or under handlights to keep away slugs.

Marigolds planted around tomatoes keep away the ugly tomato hornworm, a large green worm that can defoliate an entire tomato plant in one night.

Basil helps to keep away flies and mosquitoes.

The priests, known as Druids were experts in Celtic religious and magical practices and used the four leaf clovers to keep away evil spirits.

Because of this I keep away from parties and clubs, and recently even going out in public.

The prescriptions are for a great variety of ailments and afflictionsdiseases of the eye and the stomach, sores and broken bones, to make the hair grow, to keep away snakes, fleas, &c. Purgatives and diuretics are particularly numerous, and the medicines take the form of pillules, draughts, liniments, fumigations, &c. The prescriptions are often fanciful and may thus bear some absurd relation to the disease to be cured, but generally they would be to some extent effective.

Pillars like the Hermae, called Hecataea, stood, especially in Athens, at cross-roads and doorways, perhaps to keep away the spirits of evil.

It's a ritual to keep away wicked elves and keep bad luck at bay for the coming year.

His resolve to keep away from her began to make less and less sense.

She didn't ask for fear of discovering he was going to stop playing his keep-away game and offer her an arrangement she couldn't refuse.