Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils.

But your aunt keeps us here to protect you from those murderers!

Goering and Ribbentrop keep bodyguards to protect them from each other.

Jiro tries to keep away from her to protect her feelings.

Less if I keep back enough to protect the women.

Left for dead after one particular attack he was subsequently permitted to keep a Newfoundland dog to protect him.

Companies find it a lot cheaper to keep big shareholders happy than to protect themselves by finding new, friendly investors.

Teams have been keeping six or seven guys back to protect.

Within this area visitors must keep to the signed routes to protect the sensitive dune vegetation.

The local Japanese police were informed but they kept it secret for a few months to protect the people who discovered the location of the bodies.