put on guard

Example Sentences

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Here in Poland, even the younger generation are being put on guard.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2024

Nations can be put on guard and personnel dispatched to the bread line with a presidential tweet.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2017

Government administrators have been put on guard; mistakes have not gone long unnoticed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sick were taken on board without accident, and the encampment, reinforced and put on guard, was not molested.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon

Before long I was a corporal, and I had been told I should soon be made a sergeant, when, to my misfortune, I was put on guard at the Seville Tobacco Factory.

From Carmen by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)