guarded
Example Sentences
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But these tend to be closely guarded secrets.
And while his sister Caroline rigorously guarded her privacy, John chose a public life.
From Los Angeles Times
He said his father, however, is still very guarded and does not go out.
From Los Angeles Times
"Schools should be safe," Gigi Rejano, who works at a local restaurant, told AFP at the vigil, calling for the entrance of the school building to be guarded from now on.
From Barron's
With her bleach-blond punk haircut, puckish grin and bright elfin eyes, she could have come to the company’s heavily guarded San Francisco headquarters straight from a Berlin rave, via an old forest road in Middle-earth.
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