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 guard fan ned him for weapon.
2. A guard zapped him with the stun gun.
3. A guard was posted outside the building.
4. A security guard was killed in the bank raid.
5. They relieve each other like soldiers on guard.
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 Meanings and Examples of GUARD
guard
 n.  the person who plays that position on a football team
 n.  a position on a basketball team
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)
1  Modesty is not only and ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
2  The guard fan ned him for weapon.
3  A guard was posted outside the building.
4  Halim flashed his official card, and managed to get hold of a soldier to guard the Land Rover.
5  His encounter with the guard dog had completely unnerved him.
6  Each corner had a guard tower, each of which was exactly ten meters in height.
7  Across the street from me there are a couple of police officers standing guard.
8  The guard eyeballed him pretty hard despite his pass.
9  A guard zapped him with the stun gun.
10  Two of the soldiers kept guard over the captured guns.
11  The conservative old guard had re-established its political supremacy.
12  Radical reform was, of course, opposed by the old guard.
13  They were summarily ejected by the security guard.
14  A security guard brought him down with a flying tackle.
15  A security guard was killed in the bank raid.