guarded

Example Sentences

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Windows and doors that normally opened out onto an exterior walkway were boarded up, but the walkway itself was protected by the building’s flat roof and guarded by a metal railing.

From Literature

When they are careful, they are too guarded and aren’t to be trusted.

From Salon

The families then guarded the bodies for several hours on the ground in the hospital courtyard to prevent them from being taken away until they could find private ambulances to transport them, the source said.

From BBC

Conversations become thinner and more guarded, because detail becomes dangerous.

From BBC

And though the steam engine’s secrets were jealously guarded by the British crown, ideas just as transformational were being revealed by the Scottish economist Adam Smith.

From Barron's