watched over

Example Sentences

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But an ingredient for encouraging development of outdoor kids becoming extinct: neighborhoods—the kinds where moms at home and older adults watched over the young ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

By late May, several hundred men were sitting on the dark volcanic gravel covering the streets of Murambi village on Goma's northern outskirts, watched over by members of the M23.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

Several police officers and military guards watched over the 70-year-old and his wife, as voters huddled around, hoping to catch a peek of their president.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

Dr Ed Pyne snips a leaf from the Druids Oak, an 800-year-old tree that has watched over this woodland in Buckinghamshire for centuries, enduring droughts, storms, heatwaves and more.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

Ellen kept her silence, but she saw signs of special talents in Jethro, and she watched over him with special tenderness.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt