Examples of 'kept house' in a sentence
Meaning of "kept house"
kept house - This phrase typically means to manage or maintain the cleanliness, order, and functioning of a household, especially in the absence of other occupants or residents
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- simple past tense and past participle of keep house
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kept house
I kept house and farmed for him.
It was a house but a very well kept house.
I have kept house for my father in dresden.
We have well kept house.
I kept house better than a wife.
So the queen bee kept house for three drones.
We kept house as best we could, but it just got to be too much.
They won the national popular vote and kept House control.
The women kept house and took in boarders.
Have not any of you ever kept house before?
My mother kept house in a place something like that one.
For more than twenty years she 'd kept house.
I kept house for him.
His sister Susan Vince kept house for the family.
His brother kept house and acted as liaison between Crosse and his clients.
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I had a good relationship with my father, sacrificed much, but my mother kept house.
I kept house for Dad.
They lived fifty-one years in the same place where they first kept house.
The Kept House will protect and shelter us.
We see no change or improvement in the weather … so we left our Kept House.
His mother kept house for him, and aided him in parochial work.
Perhaps we have turned the tide . We have well kept house.
They kept house together, tended the garden together and painted together.
Esther lives in a remote rural area of Ireland in a small, well kept house.
She kept house for him then, and after some time they were married.
Isaac 's daughter, Lucy and her elder sister kept house for Emma while she was ill.
Having kept house since Sunday, my knee feels better.
The family moved to North York, where Johanson kept house and raised her children.
Therese kept house for Gauss until his death, after which she married.
I ran the bakery on Furcella Street and the pastry shops . I kept house better than a wife.
Day then kept house for Maurice Daly, a billiard hall owner and bootlegger.
Turner installed his father, Old William, who tended the Sandycombe garden and kept house.
He was paralyzed. I kept house and farmed for him.
I kept house for my father, you see.
I had children, kept house and so on.
They went to the beach, made love, kept house.
Where I kept house when lycopene distributed luck?
His wife did not work, she kept house.
She kept house and taught her daughter music, painting, knitting, sewing, cooking and gardening.
Four years later, his wife died, and his eldest daughter then kept house.
What can you do? I kept house for my father, you see.
The rest of the time, I kept house.
I kept house for Willy for 15 years after Mother died.
The Witch 's Revenge kept house.
I kept house for him. I'm a good cook, you know.
I taught school … I kept house.
Please! Kept house.
It 's probably a clean, light colored, well kept house.
