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honor guard

NOUN
  1. an escort for a distinguished guest or for the casket at a military funeral

How To Use honor guard In A Sentence

  • Chinese naval honor guard. China's navy has grown more assertive in recent years, rattling the nerves of maritime neighbors.
  • Her honor guard, she told us, was two thousand men, none shorter than six feet tall, all clad in splendid embroidered capes and bearing swords and spears and shields made of the patterned hide of the camelopard, tough and light-weight. Kushiel's Avatar
  • The Pentagon has put out another batch of official photographs of flag-draped coffins and honor guards, having long resisted, claiming invasions of family's privacy.
  • The inhabitants of a village would usually accompany the marchers to the next, as a sort of honor guard.
  • A military honor guard was fired for saying ‘God bless you’ as he handed the flag over at funerals.
  • The honor guard took the casket off the airplane, as we all stood at attention, saluting.
  • Clinton clenched his jaw and stood silently beside the coffin as an honor guard handed him the folded flag.
  • They walked slowly, led by the bagpipers, past an honor guard of law enforcement officers standing stiffly at attention.
  • An Israeli military honor guard welcomed the president and Mrs. Bush to Tel Aviv.
  • Winifred Wood described how her class grew more confident of its military bearing but felt deflated after performing as the honor guard for visiting generals Barton K. Yount and Barney Giles.
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