watched over
Example Sentences
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But an ingredient for encouraging development of outdoor kids becoming extinct: neighborhoods—the kinds where moms at home and older adults watched over the young ones.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
A smaller group of people also arrived in a police van and were kept apart from the majority of passengers and watched over by police.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Crumbling houses line the streets, watched over by a solitary clock tower.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Dr Ed Pyne snips a leaf from the Druids Oak, an 800-year-old tree that has watched over this woodland in Buckinghamshire for centuries, enduring droughts, storms, heatwaves and more.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025
For the rest of his life, Terman watched over his charges like a mother hen.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
