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
By late May, several hundred men were sitting on the dark volcanic gravel covering the streets of Murambi village on Goma's northern outskirts, watched over by members of the M23.
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
“And I think what we’ve watched over the years is how she has come to harness her strength, master it and use it to achieve what she wants.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
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
They tended the crops and watched over the cattle, just as ordinary children did during the daytime.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
