GUARDED in a Sentence

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273 example sentences for GUARDED, such as:

1. We need a trick to get past the guards.
2. Armed guards are posted around the site.
3. Our two guards defended with great skill.
4. They got in disguised as security guards.
5. The security guards soon overpowered the man.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUARDED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
guarded
 a.  protected; defended; watched over; supervised
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But Scarlett did not laugh at this and Ashley, who had laughed, stopped abruptly as he saw Mammy shoot a quick, guarded glance at Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  This house was something that the matrons of Atlanta whispered about furtively and ministers preached against in guarded terms as a cesspool of iniquity, a hissing and a reproach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  Mrs. Fisher's experience guarded her against the mistake of exposing Lily, for the first evening, to the unmitigated impression of Rosedale's personality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
4  Its guarded look had yielded to an expression still untinged by personal emotion, but full of a gentle understanding.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
5  She flushed; she was alarmed by the ease with which the big-city man invaded her guarded personality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Carol recognized in Washington as she had in California a transplanted and guarded Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  This guarded mode of existence was like living under a tyranny.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
8  Two hundred and fifty white citizens armed themselves with Winchesters and guarded him.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
9  , have set a worthy example in that they not only condemn lynch law, but her public men demanded a trial for Weems, the accused rapist, and guarded him while the trial was in progress.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
10  While he hesitated how to proceed, Le Subtil cautiously raised himself to his feet, though with a motion so slow and guarded, that not the slightest noise was produced by the change.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
11  When assured that all was still, and unable to detect, even by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of his approaching foes, he would deliberately resume his slow and guarded progress.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
12  He placed a finger in his mouth, and drew a long, shrill whistle, which was answered from the rocks that were guarded by the Mohicans.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
13  He was instantly obeyed, the Mohicans leading the Narrangansetts within the ruin, whither the whole party repaired with the most guarded silence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
14  Their progress, like their late dialogue, was guarded, and without noise; for none knew at what moment a passing patrol, or a crouching picket of the enemy, might rise upon their path.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
15  Two of the sweeping bastions appeared to rest on the water which washed their bases, while a deep ditch and extensive morasses guarded its other sides and angles.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
16  The prisoners tried to barter with the guards for their freedom.
17  We need a trick to get past the guards.
18  The guards were sadistic beasts and their leader was the devil incarnate.
19  We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.
20  There were two security guards on duty outside the building.
21  They got in disguised as security guards.
22  The security guards gave me the once-over, but they didn't ask me for any identification.
23  The security guards set their dogs on the intruders.
24  The security guards soon overpowered the man.
25  Concealed by a forbidding row of security guards, the pop-star left the building.
26  The guards were ordered to shoot on sight anyone trying to escape.
27  The guards have orders to shoot intruders on sight.
28  Armed guards are posted around the site.
29  Our two guards defended with great skill.
30  If what Justice Department prosecutors allege is true, the five guards should have to answer for what happened on Sept. 16, 2007.