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How to use on guard in a sentence

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It is midnight and around me, except for the soldiers out on operations or on guard, 5,000 fighting men and their support staff are sleeping.
They were mostly asleep, but a few stood on guard, vast bulks rearing black against the sky, prehistoric and foreboding.
The men left on guard outside the caves placed plastic sheets over their entrances and heaped dirt on them for camouflage.
Yet, there appeared to be a crowd forming around the sentry on guard there.
The job of businessmen is to stay on guard as far as consumers ' demands are concerned.
They kept a vigilant watch at the back but had to be on guard against the counter.
Pikemen stood on guard with their 16 feet long weapons and musketeers cleaned their matchlock muskets ready for the later mock battles.
I trudged into the depression and fell into a sound sleep as Billie stayed on guard.
Police in North Yorkshire today issued a warning to residents to be on guard for sneak thieves during the hot weather.
Thousands of police, army troops and security men stood on guard in and around the Grand Mosque as surveillance cameras monitored the crowds.
Some of the men had slipped away from the forward trenches, presumably those who were not actually meant to be on guard or patrol duty.
A flick of Neecer's finger sent the other Men of Truth to stand by the door, on guard.
Another example shows Macdonald on guard outside the fort that protects Canadian industry.
On Tuesday, hundreds of protesters drove trucks into the county administration building and injured a score of police troops on guard.
But once she was loose, the man on guard spotted her, and shouted for the others to come, while he chased after her.
He represents her seated on a state throne whose canopy simulates the dome of the sky while at her feet, two lions rest on guard.
Things soured after a six-year-old girl hurt herself when the dog on guard chased her in a bid to protect its family.
The third kind of symptom is hypervigilance, meaning that the body is always on guard.
The architects and urban planners should be on guard to make sure that functionality for one purpose does not negate functionality for the long term.
This widespread belief prevents us from being on guard as ads besiege us.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They had been on guard for centuries, keeping the Franks back from the Pyrenees.
He found the escapados had gone out by el nino Perdido, the sergeant on guard there allowing them to go past.
This seemed to satisfy the man, who at once went away, leaving flinders on guard.
We groused at the amount of drills and night operations, to being hut orderlies, going on guard, and so on.
But the sigma ray stands on guard until I am convinced that he intends to keep his plighted word.
He looked at neither of the bad-men, but he was very coolly and alertly on guard.
All the passengers were herded there, with Miko and Moa alternating on guard.
Rusty and one of Mother Corey's men were on guard, and the others had turned in.
That shall go with my soldier to battle, and stand with my picket on guard.
The janitor was still there on guard, but the body of the dead monkey had been removed.
It was a legionary at his post, a sentry on guard, and to him rode Knud the Bear.
The vallum is lined by the velites, who are on guard all along it from day to day.
I arrived at the bridge at eight o'clock at night, and found a vedette on guard.
We ourselves were by no means sure of the Notus, and kept on guard in case of treachery.
I explained to her the situation, and added that pye would be placed on guard.
With his back against the rose-leaves, and his shield on guard, slyboots waited for the fray.
He would have followed, but Charon, now on guard, drove him back.
And, friend, you don't get informal with a clansman when he's on guard.
Sagoths were on guard here as well as at a hundred or more other towers scattered about over a large plain.
But at the outset it seemed necessary to be on guard against the other two.
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