guarded

Example Sentences

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Restore even claims now to have more members than the Conservatives - but evidence of party numbers is often closely guarded.

From BBC

The Mexican immigration agents who had guarded the group on their three-day trip from the border said their charges, still dressed in the prison garb of detainees, were now free to go.

From Los Angeles Times

We were guarded by the same young women who had patrolled the corridors at Scheveningen.

From Literature

But to cross the rivers we had to find a bridge, and a bridge that was not guarded, as many of them were.

From Literature

The flattening “is clearly an indication of the market’s more guarded outlook for Fed policy, and raises the concern of stagflation,” said Gary Schlossberg, a global strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute in San Francisco.

From MarketWatch