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
"By golly, maybe I's too old t' put on guard, but I kin detect, all right!"
From Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
But on the days when Harold knew I would be most likely put on guard he would contrive so as to have his work near the house, and so watch over me.
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various
