Possible Clues:

• Contends
• Maintains one may sit crookedly there
• Maintains it's muddled within what's in the ship
• Demands
• Maintains little sister in tins
• Maintains they're they're all in the bag, by the sound of them
• Maintains the fluid there, by the sound of it
• Is emphatic
• Maintains what is T there, it seems
• In there is T, one maintains