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
The plebes of course were not put on guard until they had been fairly well trained in other duties.
From On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration by Sinclair, Upton
If their classes are small, each member of them is put on guard every third or fourth day.
From The Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy by Flipper, Henry Ossian
