1. Velvet can be kept at bay by good husbandry.

2. Disease caused by fungal attacks is kept at bay with the prompt removal of both infected and damaged material.

3. The sheep come straight in from the damp outdoors but infection must be kept at bay.

4. Several wolves prowled round the camp, but were kept at bay by the fire.

5. A democracy demonstrates its political power by knowing how to refuse or keep at bay something foreign and unequal that threatens its homogeneity.

6. Ballista Towers provide the defenders with enough firepower to keep at bay.

7. The overpowering despair that he'd fought so hard to keep at bay washed through the boy.