GUARDED in a Sentence

Learn GUARDED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
273 example sentences for GUARDED, such as:
1. The boy gave him a guarded look.
2. The military base is closely guarded.
3. The British guards searched his clothes.
4. We view these changes with guarded optimism.
5. The minister was quite guarded in his comments.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GUARDED
guard
 n.  the person who plays that position on a football team
 n.  a position on a basketball team
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  But Scarlett did not laugh at this and Ashley, who had laughed, stopped abruptly as he saw Mammy shoot a quick, guarded glance at Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  This house was something that the matrons of Atlanta whispered about furtively and ministers preached against in guarded terms as a cesspool of iniquity, a hissing and a reproach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  Mrs. Fisher's experience guarded her against the mistake of exposing Lily, for the first evening, to the unmitigated impression of Rosedale's personality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
4  Its guarded look had yielded to an expression still untinged by personal emotion, but full of a gentle understanding.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
5  She flushed; she was alarmed by the ease with which the big-city man invaded her guarded personality.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Carol recognized in Washington as she had in California a transplanted and guarded Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  This guarded mode of existence was like living under a tyranny.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
8  Two hundred and fifty white citizens armed themselves with Winchesters and guarded him.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
9  , have set a worthy example in that they not only condemn lynch law, but her public men demanded a trial for Weems, the accused rapist, and guarded him while the trial was in progress.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
10  While he hesitated how to proceed, Le Subtil cautiously raised himself to his feet, though with a motion so slow and guarded, that not the slightest noise was produced by the change.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
11  When assured that all was still, and unable to detect, even by the aid of his practiced senses, any sign of his approaching foes, he would deliberately resume his slow and guarded progress.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
12  He placed a finger in his mouth, and drew a long, shrill whistle, which was answered from the rocks that were guarded by the Mohicans.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
13  He was instantly obeyed, the Mohicans leading the Narrangansetts within the ruin, whither the whole party repaired with the most guarded silence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
14  Their progress, like their late dialogue, was guarded, and without noise; for none knew at what moment a passing patrol, or a crouching picket of the enemy, might rise upon their path.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
15  Two of the sweeping bastions appeared to rest on the water which washed their bases, while a deep ditch and extensive morasses guarded its other sides and angles.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  The military base is closely guarded.
2  The boy gave him a guarded look.
3  The village was guarded by a ragtag group of soldiers.
4  The minister was quite guarded in his comments.
5  The entrances are guarded by watchful security staff.
6  Five to ten rhinos are killed every year on average, mostly during Assam's devastating floods because they have to flee Kaziranga's low marshy lands to higher hills where they cannot be guarded.
7  We view these changes with guarded optimism.
8  A broad, five-yard-wide road leads to the tomb entrance, which is guarded by two headless sphinxes.
9  They trussed up the guards before they plundered the bank.
10  The guards were originally hired to watch over the houses as they were being built.
11  The British guards searched his clothes.
12  The prisoners overpowered their guards and locked them in a cell.
13  Eight people were wounded in a clash with border guards.
14  The guards took up their positions on either side of the door.
15  The gunman was finally overpowered by three security guards.