keeping
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How to use keeping in a sentence
Whether 'findings' of this sort could, morally speaking, be considered 'keepings,' was a point that did not occur to me.
The Golden Age | Kenneth GrahameIf the good old rule of findings is keepings applied to monarchs it certainly applied to Boy Scouts.
Pee-Wee Harris Adrift | Percy Keese FitzhughYou're not meant to shove your oar into people's private cat-keepings.
The Strand Magazine | VariousShe was making ready to go out, and she found her purse and counted its keepings.
The Helpers | Francis Lynde"Open my hand, and findings shall be keepings," bade the old man.
The Long Dim Trail | Forrestine C. Hooker
British Dictionary definitions for keeping
/ (ˈkiːpɪŋ) /
conformity or harmony (esp in the phrases in or out of keeping)
charge or care: valuables in the keeping of a bank
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