keep pace

1. Also, keep up. Go at the same rate as others, not fall behind. For example, The teacher told his mother that Jimmy was not keeping up with the class. Shakespeare had the first term in A Midsummer Night's Dream (3:2): “My legs cannot keep pace with my desires.” [Late 1500s]

Example Sentences

Buttler reached 50 from 43 deliveries and was just about keeping pace with a required rate of nine an over when he was bowled by an outstanding Lungi Ngidi slower ball.

From BBC

Unified fail to keep pace with declining enrollment, creating financial peril.

From Los Angeles Times

Because pay hasn’t kept pace with inflation, one employee said he’s unable to pay rent and lives out of his car for most of the year.

From Los Angeles Times

However, Norvartis claimed Nice's thresholds were outdated because the costings have remained the same since 1999 and not kept pace with rising inflation.

From BBC

These averages are recalculated every 10 years to take account of our changing climate but, with the world warming so quickly, there is a risk that even this might not be keeping pace with reality.

From BBC

Related Words

• complement 
• correlate 
• correspond 
• imitate