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Example sentences for: guard

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And they neglect, through ignorance or overconfidence, to take the elementary precautions that would guard against such lapses: above all, to mark up their scripts, the way actors do--inserting a vertical pause here, or a curving tonemarker there, or an underlining to cue emphasis, or three dots to indicate a dying fall...
Investigative journalists and critics of Bush assume that his Guard service should be compared to an alternative scenario in which he served in Vietnam.
Well, Cohen asked the Coast Guard to run the numbers and learned that rescuing Richard Branson and company cost taxpayers $130,275.
Combating Terrorism: Use of National Guard Response Teams Is Unclear
Charlemagne’s knights installed themselves in the border counties to guard the southern flank of his empire.