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

But on the days when Harold knew I would be most likely put on guard he would contrive so as to have his work near the house, and so watch over me.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various

The first night after our arrival, I was put on guard near the Light-house, and in plain sight of the ships.

From History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome by Jerome, Chauncey