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Example sentences for: guard

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

It is much harder to convince someone to poke her gums every night with a piece of rubber, to sleep with a choking plastic tooth guard, and to undergo four surgeries to fix a gum flap, all for a benefit that is decades away.
"A complete inventory of items destroyed in the bombing raid on the Republican Guard headquarters in downtown Baghdad."
Against this background, Bush's Guard service looks noble.
If a white Russian embassy guard was viciously assaulted by black thugs in Washington, "Today's Papers" thinks it would be a page one story everywhere, in this country and beyond.
As another former reporter, I was surprised to read from one of your correspondents [Martin Wald, XXI,3] that The Associated Press Stylebook advised reporters to Use innocent , in describing a defendant's plea or a jury's verdict, to guard against the word not being dropped inadvertently from Not Guilty.