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

Crumbling houses line the streets, watched over by a solitary clock tower.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

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

But he’s glad his brother has moved in with their parents, where he can be watched over, and away from Sien.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman