well-guarded

British  

adjective

1. having sufficient protection from danger or harm

2. kept private or out of the public eye

   well-guarded secrets

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Example Sentences

In the 1970s, there was a well-guarded barrier between TV and movies that only a few artists managed to cross; after his TV career it took years for Mr. Reiner to find backing for a crazy idea for a movie.

From The Wall Street Journal

Soviet agents used a well-guarded codebook, a kind of secret dictionary, with thousands of words.

From Literature

Their multi-million dollar home in Montecito, around two hours drive up the coast from Los Angeles, is secluded and well-guarded and they have kept their circle of loyal friends tight - among them, tennis star Serena Williams, as well as actress Abigail Spencer.

From BBC

Just steps away, behind Cayalá’s gates, its well-guarded residential areas, perched near a nature reserve, were eerily quiet.

From New York Times

He said the bottleneck evident for well-guarded nuclear weapons and the scarce resources of plutonium and uranium are constraints that do not exist for open-source software models that do not depend upon rare natural resources.

From Washington Times