put on guard
Example Sentences
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Here in Poland, even the younger generation are being put on guard.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2024
Nations can be put on guard and personnel dispatched to the bread line with a presidential tweet.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2017
Government administrators have been put on guard; mistakes have not gone long unnoticed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I reckon he'll be glad to be put on guard.
From Boys of The Fort Or, A Young Captain's Pluck by Bonehill, Ralph
The sick were taken on board without accident, and the encampment, reinforced and put on guard, was not molested.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon