guard
verb (used with object)
to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over.
had guarded
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past perfectof guard.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Constantinople’s defensive walls, which had guarded the city since the fifth century,
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
These officers began evacuating the officers who had guarded the door down the stairs.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2021
Madison, doing what she does best, had guarded her owners’ property the entire time, waiting patiently for them to return home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2018
Based in Western Baghdad, its soldiers had guarded convoys and bases, secured elections, and shielded the Abu Ghraib prison.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2016
After my friends’ deaths, I better understood why Mama Lessie had guarded her young brood so carefully.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
