GUARD in a Sentence

Learn GUARD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

273 example sentences for GUARD, such as:

1. The British guards searched his clothes.
2. The guard looked at us with a frigid stare.
3. They relieve each other like soldiers on guard.
4. A number of men were detached to guard the right flank.
5. Eight people were wounded in a clash with border guards.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
guard
 n.  one assigned to protect or oversee another
 n.  a defensive state or attitude
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As soon as they reached the first barrier, Cacambo told the advanced guard that a captain wanted to speak with my lord the Commandant.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
2  Notice was given to the main guard, and immediately a Paraguayan officer ran and laid himself at the feet of the Commandant, to impart this news to him.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
3  He was an old non-commissioned officer of the old guard, a member of the Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
4  Every bishop who possesses the least influence has about him his patrol of cherubim from the seminary, which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
5  The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
6  He gave her no orders; he was quite sure that she would guard him better than he should guard himself.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB
7  Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the chateau," and concealed himself in the cellar.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
8  His guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below with a sort of religion.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LAC...
9  Before them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred dragoons of the guard.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
10  le Duc de Havre, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated in the carriage, opposite the king.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
11  As we have just said, on catching sight of that black silhouette standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue Petit-Picpus, he recoiled.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
12  Javert, to all appearances, was acquainted with this little labyrinth, and had taken his precautions by sending one of his men to guard the exit.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
13  He made sure of his back burrows, as huntsmen say; he hastily despatched one of his agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
14  They relieve each other like soldiers on guard.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
15  It sometimes happened that the exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who had fathers.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  The gang tied up the security guard and put a gag in his mouth.
17  He was a security guard before he was made up to reception manager.
18  A security guard with a dog patrols the building site at night.
19  The soldier bargained that he should not have to go on guard on Sundays.
20  The guard looked at us with a frigid stare.
21  A number of men were detached to guard the right flank.
22  The policemen have to search such a large area and then document each piece of wreckage and guard it from souvenir hunters.
23  The boxer was fooled by his opponent's feint and dropped his guard.
24  The Knave was standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard him.
25  How can they get loose when there's a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?
26  They trussed up the guards before they plundered the bank.
27  The guards were originally hired to watch over the houses as they were being built.
28  The British guards searched his clothes.
29  The prisoners overpowered their guards and locked them in a cell.
30  Eight people were wounded in a clash with border guards.