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Example sentences for: guarding

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

But as soon as the miniskirt became part of the adult erotic arsenal, little girls' dresses sank below the knee, right where they had been in mid-Victorian times and where they still are, guarding traditional female decorum as their elders' skirts no longer do.
At the far end of the royal mall is a shikara-style Durga Temple, interesting for the pairs of animals guarding the stairs.
Originally a medieval gate guarding the entrance to the city, it was damaged by fire in 1619, and the clock tower was added by de Keyser during the renovations of 1620.
Vividly humiliating the man guarding you is highly prized.
This kind of establishmentarian guarding of the gates actually goes against the scientific pretensions of economics--and its progress as a field.