How To Use Off-guard In A Sentence

  • They admitted to being just a little caught off-guard when one of the professional couples started dancing during their live performance. The Sun
  • Jamie's concerned question caught her off-guard and unleashed a flood of emotions.
  • Having said all that, there's really no way of interpreting the Prince's memo as anything other than an off-guard defense of old-fashioned deference, unearned privilege and patronage.
  • The relative ease with which the Stalinist edifice began to crumble after 1989 caught most observers off-guard.
  • I think it can catch people off-guard. Times, Sunday Times
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  • All the better, I thought; in his arrogance he believes me incapable of catching him off-guard. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
  • The lion was normally a competent fighter, but he had been taken totally off-guard.
  • Off-guard Eddie Jones was third in the NBA with 177 treys.
  • caught in an off-guard moment
  • The result is an album that quietly intoxicates, sometimes catching you off-guard, but always surprising you with the richness of the vocals.
  • With a growl, she commenced pursuit of the elf, finally diving, catching him off-guard, and tripping him so both stumbled to the ground.
  • Some experts say it's a stage-managed Kremlin theater production, a "good cop, bad cop" act designed to keep the opposition off-guard and the public guessing.
  • Investors were nonetheless caught off-guard by his departure. Times, Sunday Times
  • The slow build-up and seemingly mundane backdrop may feel designed to keep an audience off-guard, but they underpin what becomes a powerfully interiorized cliffhanger, jagged with raw candor. The Best of the Fest
  • An abrupt reversal caught the markets off-guard, requiring an immediate liquidation of leveraged long positions.

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