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Definition of Keep in line
1. Verb. Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage. "She keeps in line"
Specialized synonyms: Tease, Handle, Ingratiate
Generic synonyms: Interact
Derivative terms: Control, Controller, Manipulation, Manipulative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keep In Line
Literary usage of Keep in line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Detroit, a Chronicle of Its Progress, Its Industries, Its by Paul Leake (1912)
"... order and he is a close and appreciative student, determined to keep in line
with the progress made in both departments of his chosen vocation. ..."
2. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1903)
"Those who are making up topics for monthly meetings throughout the year are urged
to keep in line with these suggestions, as we believe in this way they ..."
3. Michigan in the War by Michigan Adjutant-General's Dept, John Robertson (1882)
"I directed the 4th Regulars to keep in line with and cover the flanks of the 3d
brigade, which again advanced in magnificent style, charging over open ..."
4. Shooting: By Lord Walsingham and Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bt. by Thomas de Grey Walsingham, Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Gerald William Lascelles, Archibald John Stuart-Wortley, Simon Fraser Lovat, Charles Lennox Kerr (1887)
"Over and over again have we seen men who seemed as if they could not, or would
not, keep in line, but would walk persistently about five yards ahead of the ..."
5. Geoffrey Chaucer's the Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The by Geoffrey Chaucer (1902)
"... containing maxims of morality and rules of conduct. 4131. Make no account of
dreams. 4133. as tak: so "as keep" in line 2302, "as sende" in line 2317. ..."
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