kept back造句

The dikes kept back the floodwaters

The boy was kept back in the fourth grade.

They all ran forward,but I kept back.

Part of my allowance is kept back to pay for my meals.

A certain percentage of your salary is kept back by your employer as an insurance payment.

They kept back eighty fen from my wages for trade union membership dues.

"and from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken."

"You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)"

The specialist recommended that the exact nature of the woman's illness should be kept back from her.

This petition to Napoleon, kept back by Villefort, had become, under the second restoration, a terrible weapon against him in the hands of the king's attorney.

Qin turned his head and looked at it. His face was instantly pale. He kept back behind his mouth, almost screaming.

一条小青虫从一片带露的叶子上爬过来，不时地把大半截身子翘在空中，四处“嗅一嗅”，接着又向前爬——汤姆说它是在打探。

"and I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste."

"See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory."

Nothing but a heavy strain upon the good manners of the company kept back the due and proper complimentary laugh at this pleasant joke. But the silence was a little awkward.

Thanks to the isolation for complex geographical environment and the relique kept back by ancestor scrupulously abided by immigrant in ancient south China mountain range, a great deal of human set tlement landscape conserved has become tourism resource with greatly exploited value.

The boss kept back100 dollars from his salary for nothing.