Example Sentences

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Veterans, who have provided security at student protests throughout the movement, have been guarding her day and night, while other tents have sprung up nearby.

From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025

Volunteers and Wisconsin natural resources officials have been guarding spawning sturgeon from poachers on the Wolf River for 30 years.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024

The officers were supposed to have been guarding the crime scene.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022

Brian Clarke, who taught business law in Charlotte from 2011 to 2016, says, “The gatekeeper was the administration, and they should have been guarding the gates.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2018

Mayhap the father paid it off for the great silver watch we have been guarding since that day.

From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Dodge, Mary Mapes