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
A phalanx of guards with full armor and riot shields watched over proceedings.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 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
His friends watched over him, warming him, and bathing his wound.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
