Example sentences for: guard

How can you use “guard” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Sports writers debated whether it's a triumph for 1) Knicks guard Allan Houston, a previous underachiever who scored 32 points in the decisive game; 2) Coach Jeff Van Gundy, who had nearly been fired earlier in the season; or 3) New York, whose prestige was already bolstered by cleaner streets and lower crime.

  • How about letting a judge decide the question case by case, suggests Evan Thomas ( Inside Washington ). Do we really want the president to have a publicly funded Praetorian Guard?

  • It is an organization that stands on guard against the practice by cataloguers, librarians, and critics and reviewers of truncating the name Sholem Aleichem and producing a (Mr.)

  • They [presumably the crew] were forebears of today's Coast Guard.

  • It all seems unpleasant and slightly absurd--the night guard is "an excellent form of birth control," as one wearer puts it--but the alternative is losing your teeth at 40, getting dentures, and gumming your food.


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