keep pace

Idioms and Phrases

Also, keep up . Go at the same rate as others, not fall behind. For example, The teacher told his mother that Jimmy was not keeping up with the class . Shakespeare had the first term in A Midsummer Night's Dream (3:2): “My legs cannot keep pace with my desires.” [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

Some supporters keep pace, and others trail behind walking, there to observe Booker in the flesh more than for the cardio.

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Many of our classmates related to Robin by doing bits with him, attempting to keep pace with his antics.

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A wave of four bulls passed with me managing to keep pace for a step or two.

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Others have focused on beefing up new product categories to keep pace with the changing times.

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In the later 2000s, however, the Mubarak government found it could not keep pace with surging grain costs.

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Iftikhar's men vainly strove to keep pace with their leader; one after another goaded, dashed forward, dropped from the chase.

From Project Gutenberg

This does not usually quite keep pace with the softening; so the surface is covered with soil and other loose material.

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One of the families that are too old to keep pace with the times.

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Her long sustained effort to keep pace with events had been too much for her.

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He tells us that the compositors printed as he wrote, and that he had hard work to keep pace with them.

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Related Words

• complement
• correlate
• correspond
• imitate