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

Fires burned at artisanal mine sites, where night guards watched over equipment.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

Dr Ed Pyne snips a leaf from the Druids Oak, an 800-year-old tree that has watched over this woodland in Buckinghamshire for centuries, enduring droughts, storms, heatwaves and more.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

A queue soon formed for a book of condolence - watched over by a black-and-white photo of Ozzy clutching a cross, which the museum hastily put up on Wednesday morning.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

Char watched over him and intervened when necessary to save him or his victims from the consequences of his chicanery.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine