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UK
/bˈɒdɪɡˌɑːd/
]
[ US /ˈbɑdiˌɡɑɹd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑdiˌɡɑɹd/ ]
NOUN
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- a group of men who escort and protect some important person
How To Use bodyguard In A Sentence
- Above all, lots of protection, such as having a personal posse of bodyguards. Times, Sunday Times
- He redialed the number of the bodyguard and waited for him to pick up.
- If the car was parked in her garage, there were the two so-called bodyguards inside the house, plus the children, plus the so-called au pair! Deadly Intent
- He enjoyed the trappings of power, such as a chauffeur-driven car and bodyguards.
- There was no sign of the bodyguards or protocol officers which usually surround senior officers. Times, Sunday Times
- The only hint of fear in the company was the presence of two tall gorilla bodyguards clasping small automatic fire-arms, who glared at us suspiciously as we approached, but made no attempt to stop us.
- Kabila was shot on Tuesday last week, allegedly by a lone bodyguard in what may have been a coup attempt.
- Romanov pulled out a file folder from her jacket slowly, ensuring that the bodyguards saw what she held, and handed it to Mr. Devlin.
- In a 45-minute harangue in Brussels, flanked by a group of photogenic women bodyguards, he will have caused anxiety to those who have welcomed him back to the fold.
- Harold had kept his bodyguards - the housecarls - with him but they could not stop the onslaught and Harold and his men were slaughtered by the Normans.