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
In fact, when Louisbourg was taken, all looting was forbidden and the soldiers were put on guard over houses which they had hoped to rob.
From The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars by Wrong, George McKinnon
I was put on guard first night, six hours at a stretch to guard Rebs.
From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd
