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 smaller group of people also arrived in a police van and were kept apart from the majority of passengers and watched over by police.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Fires burned at artisanal mine sites, where night guards watched over equipment.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
County incarcerates about 13,000 people — including roughly 1,500 women — throughout its network of jails watched over by sheriff’s deputies.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025
Seema and I watched over our new sister in the living room while the morning sun filtered through the windows.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
