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
Two policemen, in plain clothes, were put on guard, one relieving the other.
From The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective by Chester K. Steele
He did not know it at the time or I would have been put on guard duty all night.
From The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life by Cyril Burleigh
