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Keep apart   /kip əpˈɑrt/   Listen
Keep apart

verb
1.
Set apart from others.  Synonyms: isolate, sequester, sequestrate, set apart.






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"Keep apart" Quotes from Famous Books



... a message from Rayne! That number was the one agreed upon by all of us as a signal that some extreme danger had occurred, and it became necessary for us all to keep apart and disperse. ...
— The Golden Face - A Great 'Crook' Romance • William Le Queux

... is not a Catholic," she persisted. "There's an understanding between him and Monsignor O'Donnell. They exchange looks when they meet. He visits the priest when he feels like it, but in public they keep apart. Oh, all round, that Arthur Dillon is the strangest fellow; but he plays his part so well that fools like you, ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith

... said, "I will answer. If you find life with Mr. Minturn insufferable, an agony to both of you, I would separate, and speedily. If it has come to the place where you can't see each other or speak without falling into unpleasantness, then I'd keep apart." ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter

... stiff fighting. Men of the French infantry keeping under cover in one of their advanced trenches are seen in the left foreground of the picture. The object of the actual fighting on the occasion was to keep apart the Third German army as it fell back towards prepared positions near the Meuse and a force of reinforcing troops coming up from the direction of Metz. "To impede the persistent ...
— The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 • Various

... Brutus signaling her consort. But that was all she could do. In the terrific sea that was running it would have been impossible to rig a fresh cable. The only thing for the two ships to do was to keep burning flare lights, in order that they might keep apart and not ...
— The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash - Or - Facing Death in the Antarctic • Captain Wilbur Lawton


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