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Example sentences for "under guard"

  • When a small company of the Modoc women came in asking for their ponies, they were denied them, but were permitted to go under guard to the corral and see them.

  • Finally, the Klamath Indians succeeded in arresting the deserters and bringing them under guard to the fort, receiving therefor a reward for so doing.

  • Uncouth these Indians on Siletz may be, but let truth speak for them, and you will hear of how they came to this new home captives, and in chains, under guard of bayonets, borne on shoulders of men wearing the uniform of the U.

  • A crowd was soon collected, and the belligerent one was placed under guard, while the defunct was hurried to the hospital, to be placed in hands of the Surgeon.

  • In a few days, therefore, some of our boys came across him, in the timber, and brought him to Cassville, under guard.

  • All extra, useless and heavy baggage is ordered to be left, under guard, until brought forward by the wagon train.

  • The pickets were all called up, and I was sent, under guard, to General Ross.

  • Alexis is, by my orders, under guard in the barn, and his sword is under lock and key in Basilia's keeping.

  • It was confidential order addressed to all the chiefs of detachments to arrest me, and send me under guard to Khasan before the Commission of Inquiry, created to give information against Pougatcheff and his accomplices.

  • The German officers were sent off under guard to an inland town, and the sailors sent to a camp in another part of Denmark.

  • They was brought in yesterday, sir, under guard, and locked up in the guard-room.

  • With Don Cristobal and other officers he stood, under guard of a detachment of the 5th Leger regiment, near the Portillo Gate, and witnessed the whole scene as the mixed column, soldiers and peasants, defiled past.

  • Officers always placing themselves against him with an iron rule, while with different treatment he might have been a pliable and good soldier, but as it was, frequently in trouble, under guard.

  • Leach, under guard, who has been confined for sixteen days in this miserable noisy hole for a trifling crime, but he stood it with resignation.

  • A much better effect will result from this than if they were strict and kept them under guard.

  • The men then marched, under guard, through Houston to their quarters in a cotton warehouse near Buffalo Bayou.

  • While in Houston the men received good treatment and were allowed a furlough in the city every day, four men at a time, under guard.

  • One man, under guard, was allowed to see the consul, and the Confederate captain in charge was ordered to leave by six o’clock, as after that hour they would be fired upon.

  • Under guard, the prisoners were marched to Captain Cogswell’s headquarters for examination.

  • Would you like to search for some, under guard of two men?

  • I could have had the range of mountains to add to my herbarium, under guard; but a certain feeling, I knew not what, held me near the ladies.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "under guard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each room; marine engines; poor soul; under colour; under conditions; under control; under date; under domestication; under ground; under heaven; under her; under other; under pressure; under pretence; under side; under the firm name; under the present circumstances; under the present system; under them; under those; under which; underparts white; understand something; understand them; understood afterwards; understood that