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

The series has already been watched over 12.7 million times since its release on the streaming site on January 1, with only the final series of Stranger Things proving more popular.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 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

For the rest of his life, Terman watched over his charges like a mother hen.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell