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

In a cobbler's workshop in Los Angeles, the footprints of Hollywood history are stacked floor to ceiling, watched over by a man who says his profession is dying.

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

Several police officers and military guards watched over the 70-year-old and his wife, as voters huddled around, hoping to catch a peek of their president.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

And in this past day, Christmas Eve, while the clock made two complete rotations of its own, I watched over three tiny creatures whose lungs struggled like the flat, useless wings of butterflies prematurely emerged.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver