"maintain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She wasn't to know that, for her sake, he had forced himself to a control he could barely maintain.
- Her engines were ticking over, so she barely maintained steerage.
- Now she was moving past the beach, about two miles off shore and barely maintaining steerageway.
- What could be an angelic voice sounds instead like someone barely maintaining his sanity.
- The ship felt as if she were barely maintaining headway.
- Two strong men could barely maintain her course.
- The weight had been miscalculated and, during the flight, the aircraft could barely maintain altitude.
- She flailed there for a second, barely maintaining her balance.
- He could barely maintain the mental energy to proceed from one moment to the next.
- It could barely maintain unity within itself, let alone claim to be the legitimate government of all China.
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