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
In each traverse two of the older men had been put on guard with their heads sticking over the top, and with their eyes trying to pierce the blackness in "No Man's Land."
From Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey
