How To Use Guarded In A Sentence

The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
Connection is here something both yearned for and guarded against. The Times Literary Supplement
I took a moment to read what his mind is thinking, but he quickly guarded his thoughts.
Huge crowds are expected to file past the coffin, which will be guarded by a contingent of Gentlemen at Arms and Yeoman of the Guard.
There must be a solid hierarchy and system of protection safeguarded by organized crime syndicates or mafia.

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Many of the events are informal and unscripted, and can afford glimpses of public figures talking unguardedly about their ideas, their life, and their convictions. The Story Behind the Story
Due for cuts of up to a third but flood protection safeguarded. The Sun
In unguarded moments he says he is just curious. Times, Sunday Times
His demeanor, though somewhat guarded, is more small-town high school football star than newly minted teen heartthrob. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 18TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
A total of 110,000 security personnel will be on duty at the Games, with airspace around venues tightly guarded and navy gunboats patrolling the waters around the city.
After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
I gaped unguardedly at the wad of bills in his hands.
Even more important, they might fail to notice a menace or threat which if not guarded against might harm or even destroy them, their regime, and possibly even the state as well.
After an initial search, the stretch of beach where the bodies were found was left unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
Amr Nabil/Associated Press An army tank guarded a fire-damaged shopping mall. Egypt Opposition Ramps Up Pressure
In general it has to be dumped in derelict and unguarded houses, where such of it as is not looted is ruined by damp. As I Please
After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Lang, a retired veterinary surgeon, says he can still remember the thrill of seeing the lady's slipper in Yorkshire, long before it had to be heavily guarded.
The courts, however, decided that a port so little guarded as Wilmington was at that time could not be legally called blockaded, and the brig was therefore released. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
At some point in their careers, most broadcasters have made an unguarded comment when the fader was open and the mic was live.
I am guardedly optimistic that Madonna -- ever the trend setter -- will inspire women everywhere to try the 'salmon retox.' Dr. Nicholas Perricone: Madonna: Salmon Queen
The village was guarded by a ragtag group of soldiers.
These reports are a guarded secret between the production staff. Times, Sunday Times
If there was an ‘ongoing investigation’ of ‘national security’ issues guarded by ‘executive priveledge’ would the McSpin accelerate fast enough to tear a hole in the space-time continuum? Think Progress » October 7: The Beginning of CIA Leak Scandal, The Beginning of the End
Leaving keys in ignitions and leaving purses unguarded is not smart. Mexico living: five questions
The museum is heavily guarded and all visitors have to pass through metal detectors. The Sun
To have my name traduced in public; in inns, among the meanest vulgar! to have any little favours that my unguarded heart may have too lightly betrayed me to grant, boasted of there! nay, even to hear that you had been forced to fly from my love! History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Republican manliness is not at odds with such unguarded displays of affect, for the "loftiness" and Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott
Beautiful areas of countryside in Wiltshire are to be safeguarded for future generations.
Her glossy hair's done up in a jaunty black ponytail and she's sizing me up from behind a cool, guarded smile.
Joe had never been privy to her thoughts and fears and dreams and giggling drunken confessions in the same unguarded way Chrissie had. FALLEN WOMEN
There's no shame, no guardedness and perhaps most impressively, no status anxiety. Robi Ludwig: Life Lessons Learned Over Coffee
These have safeguarded the countryside and helped to secure urban renewal for more than half a century. Times, Sunday Times
Until that moment the existence of mobile oil platforms had been kept a closely guarded commercial secret.
Tales of bare-breasted Amazonian women warriors a myth which gave its name to the river guarded vast civilisations along the river bank. Why Amazon?
The ones I saw were being guarded, not by Americans, but by brown-skinned soldiers, men of their own size and race, incongruous in alien boots and uniforms.
For it is I think that gives the asseveration such grace and dignity, so that a small but not insignificant wrong is done when (on a couple of occasions in Posthumous Keats) his precisely guarded hope is indurated into "his statement to his brother George, in 1818, that he would be among the English poets after his death," within "a future that meant to place him 'among the English poets.' Keats's Afterlife
At present, his guarded manner and his reluctance to discuss his previous symptoms or violent behaviour make a detailed examination of his mental state extremely difficult.
When John was born, Nick was in Russia, along with other rookies from the Legion, battling a squad of soldiers who guarded a weapons plant.
Debilitating injures were commonplace in work areas with slippery floors and stairways, and heavy unguarded machinery.
The building was like a fortress, a tall gray monument of dusty windows and old bricks, guarded by crude metal fences all around its perimeter.
It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
These reports are a guarded secret between the production staff. Times, Sunday Times
These protectors guarded over the tombs of the kings, in what is now known as the Valley of the Kings.
For two years she followed him on the campaign trail, capturing unguarded moments between the increasingly staged photo opportunities. Times, Sunday Times
Near the audience hall was another immense gathering space with one hundred columns, as well as the large and well-guarded treasury constructed of deceptively plain mud bricks. Alexander the Great
Some questioned the political gain of such self-sacrifice, or of trying to take down a heavily guarded fence in a gesture of dubious symbolism.
It was neatly folded and carefully done up, with various seals and blue ribbons, in a package about six inches wide by eighteen in length, and was guarded by the select half of the Faroese army and navy, being exactly twelve men, and delivered by the amtman of the island with a few appropriate and impressive remarks, after which it was hung up over the cabin gangway by the captain as a solemn warning to all future passengers. The Land of Thor
Her son remained in guarded condition Monday in an intensive care unit.
He added: ‘We do need in Scotland a sensible scheme to ensure the public is safeguarded and the profession is not pilloried.’
He held them silent with ghastly stories of the "Yo-hoes" on Monomoy Beach, that mock and terrify lonely clam-diggers; of sand-walkers and dune-haunters who were never properly buried; of hidden treasure on Fire Island guarded by the spirits of Kidd's men; of ships that sailed in the fog straight over Captains Courageous
Again, I'm prepared to be wrong about this, but I don't see cashiering McChrystal happening, given that the depiction of the "rift" here amounts to some personal slights, some unguarded drunk-talk among aides, and McChrystal's sincere belief that Karl Eikenberry's criticisms felt like a "betrayal" from a friend. Stanley McChrystal Under Fire: What Does It Mean For Counterinsurgency Strategy?
The greatest fear is that the European governing body's internal politics will scupper the bid: McConnell admitted as much last month in an unguarded remark.
He smiled with his whole face, and it was the freest she'd ever seen him, the most unguarded. FLIGHT LESSONS
She let the news slip by mistake , in an unguarded moment.
In this quarter the palisades were the weakest, and the ground the least elevated; but it was guarded by men on whose skill with axe and shield Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
Only a few people came to observe a tightly guarded ceremony held in the town's Hiraq square, presided over by Regent Tarmizi Akarim and attended by local dignitaries.
Victims as we are of bad habit, unambitious as we are about our souls' progress we speak so unguardedly! Avoiding Idle Talk
Nor do we view the tiny flame of our own kindling (guarded in lasting purity as its light ever is) with greater awe than the celestial fires though they are often shrouded in darkness; nor do we deem it a greater marvel than the craters of Etna, whose eruptions throw up stones from its depths and great masses of rock, and at times pour forth rivers of that pure and unmixed subterranean fire. On the Sublime
Eric Perrin sneaked in to poke the puck away, and it skidded right in front of the unguarded net to Pascal Dupuis. USATODAY.com
Entering Tucson we passed the Ina Road exit - the exit I used to take to get to my mountainside retreat at Sin Vacas in the Catalina Foothills, a mega materialistic gated and guarded community.
The completed items would be kept in storage for as long as necessary, brought out to be washed and aired occasionally, and jealously guarded.
The recipe for their health drink is a closely guarded trade secret.
He moved a hand guardedly down toward the bolt on his rifle.
Yet her fierce, unplucked brows guarded surprisingly delicate eyelashes. RUSHING TO PARADISE
No one is going to steal our plutonium - it is too well guarded, too hard to handle, too dangerous.
The apparently unguarded remarks, though not very presidential, did Kerry little harm and in some circles no doubt boosted his standing.
In a single unguarded moment, the cat was released from the bag. Times, Sunday Times
He tried to entertain Holly the best he could, though she was probably scared senseless by the smell of tobacco and the guarded expression Poppy always wore under all circumstances.
My family arms are the same, which were borne by the Gibbons of Kent in an age, when the College of Heralds religiously guarded the distinctions of blood and name: a lion rampant gardant, between three schallop-shells argent, on a field azure. Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Her posturings, bizarre behaviours, withdrawal and guardedness lead me to consider schizophrenia.
Two hulking figures guarded the entrance of the club.
The eastern slope has numerous large oysters on the rocks, guarded by loyal moorish idols and bicolour parrotfish.
The Argo slipped through Scylla and Charybdis, guarded by nymphs.
The same sentiment guarded him from betraying himself.
This guardedness, which is shared by the South and East Asian populations, enhances the appeal of branch campuses. Strangers in a Foreign Land
This, of course, would be the excess of tyranny and the worst wickedness in government, as has been shown above.a The dangers, then, arising from a polyarchy are more to be guarded against than those arising from a monarchy. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
Instead they live out their days in the rescue centre, eating and sleeping in a guarded compound and acting as counsellors to other traumatised victims. Times, Sunday Times
I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.
But against this untimely weakness Lady Penelope was guarded, by the strong shield of self-conceit. Saint Ronan's Well
As they were divided into clans and tribes, they have fiercely guarded their independence, preserving what has since become a very diverse and fascinating culture.
First , the army suppressed the racialist's terrorism, safeguarded the unity of America, provided a steady society for the Congress to reconstruct the South democratically.
His doctors, who believe they can lower that rate by tinkering with the device's settings, are less guarded.
But if the public highway is nothing but an accessory of private property; if the communal lands are converted into private property; if the public domain, in short, assimilated to private property, is guarded, exploited, leased, and sold like private property, -- what remains for the proletaire? System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
I should not leave my briefcase and camera bag unguarded.
Yet he knows such things are fickle and there's a weary guardedness about him.
Whatever the reason, his public persona seems guarded and calculating and his repeated protestations of humility usually fall flat.
The Kodavas have fiercely guarded their tradition and customs as well as their uniqueness.
We desperately wanted her to utter some unguarded remark about ‘flies’ but that didn't happen either.
I hope the press photographer was able to catch this unguarded posture.
This leads to higher prices, which is always resented by those consumers whose jobs are not safeguarded through protection.
A ticket booth was guarded by two of these figures dressed as policemen.
If presenters like Humphrys, who could in one unguarded moment destroy the corporation's reputation, do not follow instructions, might not that create the slackness that leads to disaster?
The museum is heavily guarded and all visitors have to pass through metal detectors. The Sun
If they could get Sloan to relax and to trust them, there was a good chance he might talk unguardedly.
It's easy to see why MacLeod has to remain guarded and wary of all those he encounters.
The location of the ship is a closely-guarded secret.
Such risks must be guarded against at all costs.
Sometimes unguarded dribblers bounce the ball off their foot.
The bunker's precise location is a closely guarded secret.
He has a guarded look, and says he has meetings to go to. Times, Sunday Times
Troy's thin smile was cautious, guarded, like he was afraid of something.
In Japan, the practice of patent strategies is legally safeguarded by patent legislation.
On all days while alive, unpaired males either paired randomly with unguarded females or sneaked.
Even his private comments grew much more guarded as the work itself became increasingly gnomic and resistant to interpretation.
There are tens of thousands of e-mails in that trove, a lot of people speaking unguardedly, unwisely and impolitically. You shall know them by their work
But for him as a student of life all motherhood must be guarded as such -- even if it be guarded in such a fashion that it can never recur, which is our duty to the feeble-minded mother. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
The embassy building was closely guarded. Somewhere East of Life
The danger of war should be removed and peace safeguarded in the Korean peninsula," said the message, which was also emphatically read by a North Korean anchorwoman, wearing traditional Korean dress, in a state television broadcast monitored in Seoul. North Korea Calls For Better Ties With Warning
Now there are 75 tonnes of plutonium and 3,336 tonnes of uranium recovered from reprocessing, all stored and closely guarded but with no obvious use, at Sellafield.
He has always guarded his private life fiercely, arguing that talking about his off-screen relationships cheapens them and hampers his professional ability to be a chameleon.
Illuminated in pale light from the half-moon he looked ethereal, nearly tinted blue, his facial features drawn and guarded.
Pongau and thousands of men were herded together in cramped conditions, but instead of being sent on they were left unguarded as, amazingly, the guards had all left. Work Camp 1768 L
Unlike them, I grew up in God's own garden, a shadowy and solemn rainforest cathedral choired by birds of paradise and guarded by poisonous vines, stink bugs, and death adders. Undefined
It was said to be guarded and under lock and key to avoid further embarrassment. The Sun
Dinwiddie could be a gruff man, and he guarded his prerogatives, so he had one conflict after another with the House of Burgesses, which he usually prorogued dismissed if it did not do his bidding. George Washington’s First War
He wondered if the psychiatrist was trying to goad him into some unguarded response.
The house is guarded by a fierce dog.
I've been lucky enough to have godchildren in my life, and to have been close with them, to be trusted enough by them to hear their unguarded concerns; to occasionally be allowed to help with their problems. A Conversation with Mark Spragg about An Unfinished Life
Guarded or shielded sweeps are very useful because they permit shallow cultivation of a wide strip without forming ridges.
A Queen move which attacks a guarded pawn is not usually a threat since taking the pawn next move usually results in loss of material.
Even the conservative Atlanta Center for Disease Control has now published its assessment - and after years of denial, it is now guardedly pro-circumcision, in Aids-prone countries at least.
And yet, despite William's desire to ‘provoke soft emotions,’ we have no evidence she ever offered hers unguardedly during the time they were courting.
They had just been lying around out in the open, unguarded and ripe for the taking.
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I was there five days, so got to know the soldiers who guarded me when I was fishing or just catching some rays, and the wives who were always bringing me fruit or a Coca-Cola.
Some were further guarded from prying eyes by sort of gridirons, politely called balconies, though, since the platform had been forgotten, and only the protecting railings were there hard up against the glass, the name was deceptive. The Good Comrade
That, alone, which has to be guarded against is the falsity, the instinctive duplicity which _would fain_ regard this antithesis as no antithesis at all: just as Wagner did, — and his mastery in this kind of falseness was of no mean order. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
Today it is still heavily guarded, with numerous checkpoints and a nighttime curfew.
The recipe for their health drink is a closely guarded trade secret.
If you don't believe it, explain to me what you call sneaking into a public area of citizens who are completely unguarded, with a bomb strapped to yourself, and detonating that bomb with the intent to kill and impose fear upon those people? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Second, that the film-makers saw fit to jazz up the original story with the search for a giant radioactive asteroid guarded by monkey warriors. Times, Sunday Times
Along one side of the square there ran the high brick wall, topped with a kind of battlement, that guarded the Maharajah's palace grounds from the eyes of men. Rung Ho
-- Therefore it is urged that during the period of utero-gestation, especial pains should be taken to render the life of the female as harmonious as possible, that her surroundings should all be of a nature calculated to inspire the mind with thoughts of physical and mental beauties and perfections, and that she should be guarded against all influences, of whatever character, having a deteriorative tendency. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
The drinks industry and publicans have made a guarded response to the moves, insisting they already support the drive to encourage more responsible drinking.
In their time off, the soldiers bathed in the river and gratefully supplemented their tasteless rations with local fruit and cheeses given to them by thankful nuns from the convent they guarded.
the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world
They continued to be closely guarded and severely restricted in their movements.
Craftsman typically form Guilds and the guild members tend to keep their common craft as a well-guarded secret among themselves: not blowing the gaff is one of their rules of professional conduct.
Lounging on the divan, his arms placed unguardedly before him, he had none of the tense, high-strung, honour-obsessed posture of his people.
But, as is so often the case here, something has emerged from the grey area that might provide cause for guarded optimism. Times, Sunday Times
an unguarded remark
One friend lost all hers when the fox learnt she would leave them unguarded when the phone rang. Times, Sunday Times
He lives in retirement in a guarded compound in Tbilisi. Times, Sunday Times
JWV was pretty guarded during the conversation in general, but when I asked about this car and any possible delay or cancellation his response was to the effect of "well, it wouldn't make a lot of sense (to cancel it)". Saab Cars - Trollhattan Saab
But he also knew Marnie was very independent, and she guarded that independence.
China pugs guarded the hearth; a brass sunflower smiled from the top of either andiron, and a brass peacock spread its tail before them inside a high filigree fender; on one side was a coalhod in 'repousse' brass, and on the other a wrought iron wood-basket. A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1
Some fans have warmed to giving him a chance but it is guarded optimism. Times, Sunday Times
A little beyond it, by the brink of the cliffs, was another post, called Samos, held by seventy men with four cannon; and, beyond this again, the heights of Sillery were guarded by a hundred and thirty men, also with cannon. [ Montcalm and Wolfe
Chocolate is a multimillion pound industry, and each hard won market segment is jealously guarded by the giant global manufacturers.
London houses Europe's financial capital, a title jealously guarded by the U.K. but a cause of friction with the rest of Europe. U.K. Veto of EU Treaty Overhaul Could Leave It Isolated
From the guarded and secretive streets of the whitewashed barrios, with their flower-strewn interiors, to the shady bodegas where ice cold sherry is served from ancient wooden casks, everything about Seville says romance.
The military reverberations of the word "vulnerable"-unguarded, unfortified, defenseless-as well as its more visceral associations-exposed, naked-I felt intensely as I thought about the hard attitude rampant today that everyone is on his or her own, not only poor families struggling to survive (cuts to welfare), but also children (cuts to education) and the elderly (cuts to Medicare and Social Security); and the ruthless attitude equally rampant today that no one owes anybody anything, that any "sacrifice" in the name of the public good, of the world we share together, our commonwealth, is too much to ask of anyone. NPR Topics: News
Gunmen guarded homes near the cemetery with shotguns.
It is easy to argue that abuse should be safeguarded against - but no constitution would operate for long unless there were a considerable element of publicly accepted convention.
The end of the wide corridor was guarded by double doors with a warning symbol on either side of them.
All the approaches to the palace were guarded by troops.
There, though, the problems raised are only touched upon in a guarded fashion, with careful reservations and with a noticeable reluctance to arrive at a positive resolution.
I watched him carefully through guarded eyes and waited until I thought he had calmed down before I spoke again.
At each crossroads the stone fountains with their precious supply of water were guarded by men-at-arms.
It ended with good intentions all round and guarded optimism and the usual call for more investment in research; more planning for an increasingly aged population. Times, Sunday Times
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. Buddha
Connection is here something both yearned for and guarded against. The Times Literary Supplement
Since I was one of the few women, and the only unarmed prisoner, I was guarded in a more lax manner than the others.
Only by driving down the restricted and guarded government access road leading to the site can one see the valley of antennas.
Ambon city divides into patchworks of guarded religious enclaves.
It's been made daily from the same secret and well-guarded recipe for the last 158 years. The Sun
You just have to look at the pose: this is not a petulant man caught in an unguarded moment. Times, Sunday Times
Today, however, unlike in the past, risk is seen not as something we can handle or perhaps even turn into opportunity, but as something that we suffer from and must be guarded against.
He was another personal favourite whose friendship shrivelled after a single unguarded remark.
When she looks back on her days as a child actor, Follows is generally less careful, less guarded than she would have been at the time.
Despite ‘being told’ to ‘take the point’, a low drive found an unguarded spot and the ball squirted off the goal post and over the line.
The endless pressure ridges that guarded the first half of the route proved to be the least of our worries. Times, Sunday Times
They could not leave the city unguarded.
With the luxury of time, the regard of the subject can move from confrontational and guarded to direct and open.
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
He decides on Fiona, who is prisoner in a castle on a rock, surrounded by molten lava and guarded by a fierce dragon.
In the three weeks before she fulfilled her pledge the building stood unguarded - and untouched by a single vandal.
We build walls where we need only a fence for protection, and leave ourselves unguarded where we need more solid support. Times, Sunday Times
He demanded that Eribo should go and find out what constituency allowance of lawmakers is all about before making what he described as unguarded comments. Thisday Online
Can we say this as well, your Honours, that the statement of a predictive opinion, guarded or unguarded, is apt to induce more than one act of reliance.
The soldiers guarded the prince whenever he left the palace.
The camp is surrounded by razor-wire fences and guarded by military police.
The scene of the tragedy was cordoned off by police tape and was guarded by officers as investigations into the cause of the blaze continued.
It was said to be guarded and under lock and key to avoid further embarrassment. The Sun
We are in the era of guarded opulence and while heads are rolling in town, a certain level of indulgence continues to continue in Napoleon's France.
You shouldn't leave your bag unguarded in a pub like that.
In the chaos, the wasp slips unnoticed through the ant nest and preys on the unguarded caterpillar.
What should be one of the most important facts of our national identity is instead one of the government's most closely guarded secrets!
The entire day is passed in religious exercises, but anything which could in the least savour of any public cult of the martyrs is sedulously guarded against, as such anticipation of the Church's official action would seriously interfere with the cause of their canonization, which is now under consideration at Quebec. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
If so, in the meantime antiterrorist action will be taken to hold the ring, to limit violence to what a British minister once unguardedly called an acceptable level.
I suppose that in my quest for the unguarded and ungroomed Diana, I was looking for proof of her humanity.
The shade of the buildings guarded sprawled stevedores who, rather than slow broil on the hot ground, lay across wooden pallets sleeping. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
She had listened with calm contempt while these women had underrated the Confederate Army, blackguarded Jeff Davis and accused Southerners of murder and torture of their slaves. Gone with the Wind
She then focused on her brother, her expression guarded. Whispers At Midnight
The bunker's precise location is a closely guarded secret.
They guarded their opponents courteously, looked for unchallenged spaces to catch the ball, and settled for long-range heaves.
Even the name assigned to that astounding venture was still among the most closely guarded Federation secrets, and with good reason. A Time to Sow
Pavelski scooped up a long rebound and patiently outwaited Luongo before tucking the puck into an unguarded net. USATODAY.com - Hockey - San Jose vs. Vancouver

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