MAINTAIN in a Sentence

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298 example sentences for MAINTAIN, such as:
1. Whatever may betide, maintain your courage.
2. We aim to maintain high standards of customer care.
3. It is clearly illogical to maintain such a proposition.
4. The fund was specified to maintain the ancient buildings.
5. We shall maintain our focus on the needs of the customer.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MAINTAIN
maintain
 v.  stick to correctly or closely
 v.  have and exercise
Classic Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
1  For these reasons, therefore, it was possible for Venice to make her constitution what it is, and to maintain it without divisions.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
2  And were it possible to maintain things in this equilibrium, I veritably believe that herein would be found the true form of political life, and the true tranquility of a republic.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI.
3  But he who will not keep to the fair path of virtue, must to maintain himself enter this path of evil.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI.
4  These are numerous, and should be well considered, both by those who would maintain the liberties of a commonwealth and by those who would subvert them.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL.
5  How hard it is in founding a commonwealth to provide it with all the laws needed to maintain its freedom, is well seen from the history of the Roman Republic.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLIX.
6  For we know by numberless instances, what perils these nations were ready to face in their efforts to maintain or recover their freedom, and what vengeance they took against those who deprived them of it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II.
7  But now, having spoken of the prudence shown by Brutus when he sought to recover the freedom of Rome, let us next speak of the severity which he used to maintain it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II.
8  So that he who sets up as a tyrant and slays not Brutus, and he who creates a free government and slays not the sons of Brutus, can never maintain himself long.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III.
9  That Hannibal was not a master in the arts of warfare there is none will venture to maintain.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X.
10  Actions like this are necessary not only to lay a foundation for your fame, but also to maintain and extend it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIV.
11  It is impossible for those who follow the other to maintain themselves.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII — CONCERNING THOSE WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PRINC...
12  National opinion has enabled this last class to maintain the Negro common schools, and to protect the Negro partially in property, life, and limb.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
13  Even the white laborers are not yet intelligent, thrifty, and well trained enough to maintain themselves against the powerful inroads of organized capital.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  The combination of a certain adroitness with deep-seated earnestness, of tact with consummate ability, gave him his preeminence, and helps him maintain it.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
15  No matter what the conversation chanced to be about, he always contrived to maintain his part in the same.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (151 in 11 pages)
1  Whatever may betide, maintain your courage.
2  Quite a number of young people maintain that money is a passport to happiness.
3  It is clearly illogical to maintain such a proposition.
4  We are anxious to maintain our close links with the police.
5  The lease stated that tenants should maintain the property in good condition.
6  Many minority groups are struggling to maintain their cultural identity.
7  We aim to maintain high standards of customer care.
8  We shall maintain our focus on the needs of the customer.
9  The fund was specified to maintain the ancient buildings.
10  He has occasional injections to maintain his good health but otherwise he lives a normal life.
11  In a formal interview, try to maintain good eye contact with the interviewers.
12  Germany and France pledged to maintain the differential between their two currencies.
13  The army has been brought in to maintain order in the region.
14  Only by keeping down costs will America maintain its competitive advantage over other countries.
15  There are many people who wish to maintain the status quo.