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Example sentences for "ward"

Lexicographically close words:
warblers; warbles; warbling; warblings; warcraft; wardane; warded; warden; wardens; wardenship
  1. I know that this policeman did not use his club but his fist on one of your ward heelers, and that was for cursing him in public.

  2. This city has been kept terror-stricken by these gangsters long enough, because honest citizens have been compelled by a ward politician's law to go without weapons of defense.

  3. Barton was about to speak when the door from the inner ward opened behind them.

  4. Burke was wheeled out into the big free ward of the hospital by one of the attendants.

  5. Bobbie, with a left-ward twitch of his head, and a slight quiver of the lid of his left eye, brought an attentive ear close to his mouth.

  6. No secrets, no secrets," began Barton, but Bobbie had beckoned to the ward attendant.

  7. It was the aim of the school proctor, Mr. Frederick Porter, to thus keep watch and ward over the first year students.

  8. But, to ward off suspicion, Sam growled louder than anyone about the task.

  9. You say you left the ward to think it over, after being convinced that you had discovered Nichol.

  10. Every Sunday afternoon we went from ward to ward singing familiar hymns.

  11. A shaded lamp burned near, making a circle of light and leaving the rest of the ward dim and shadowy.

  12. And to the landlord he said, "Mr. Cardigan, late ward of Sir William Johnson, but one of us.

  13. The women's ward was the portion of the establishment which we especially examined.

  14. By and by we came to the ward where the children were kept, on entering which, we saw, in the first place, several unlovely and unwholesome little people lazily playing together in a court-yard.

  15. In earlier years he had carried off a ward in Chancery, one Anne Grysanis, while still a child, and attempted to marry her by force to one of his retainers.

  16. We have called the said inquest before us, and committed them to ward for their lightness in the premises.

  17. To attain this dexterity, children are taught to turn aside, with a stick, the blunt darts thrown at them, and in time they become sufficiently expert to ward off arrows in the same manner.

  18. I have already spoken of their thick arrow-proof elk-skin armor, and of a coat of short sticks bound together with grass; a bark helmet is also employed of sufficient strength to ward off arrows and light blows.

  19. For instance, she was much more interested in Basil Ward than in the Cause, and she absolutely disapproved of Poppy's stand about the income tax.

  20. I said this to Basil Ward the night we got to Tintagel.

  21. On entering the ward the next morning the nurse told me with a smiling face, "B.

  22. Like everything else this fastidiousness can be overdone, and I remember once a boy's legal guardian showing me a bill for a hundred pounds sterling that his ward had incurred in a single term for cut flowers.

  23. My sovereign holds in ward my land, My uncle leads my vassal band; To tame his foes, his friends to aid, Poor Malcolm has but heart and blade.

  24. O let your patience ward such ill, And keep your right to love me still!

  25. I, only I, can ward their fate-- God grant the ransom come not late!

  26. I haven't had much experience, but I should think they would be encouraged, as a ward decoration!

  27. Down the length of the ward Claire caught a glimpse of a recumbent form, and felt a pang at the thought of the many visiting days when her friend had remained alone.

  28. Realizing that an attack might be expected in the war zone, and that every precaution would be taken to ward it off, the Germans moved far out from land, in the hope of catching the American gunners napping.

  29. While my sister, Mrs. Eames, was residing in Paris with her son and daughter, her home on the corner of H and Fourteenth Streets was occupied by Ward Hunt and his wife of Utica.

  30. Mr. Ward was then in Congress from New York.

  31. They, however, surrounded his house in the First Ward one evening and demanded in clamorous tones that he should name a definite time when he would satisfy their claims.

  32. Mr. Samuel Ward, a noted character of the day, the brother of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and who married Emily Astor, daughter of William B.

  33. Corcoran, lived Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Ward who probably entertained more lavishly than any other family of that day.

  34. He never married and many persons regarded him as the Ward McAllister of the Capital.

  35. Ward was the attorney of the United States, and he swears to it that he recollects it perfectly.

  36. You recollect when we put on Mr. Ward to show what Rehm testified to before the grand jury, that Mr. Ayer suggested that we had better have the notes.

  37. Bishop--married to Allie Lisle, ward of James Davis, foster sister of James R.

  38. Senonches had told her intimate friends that her ward would meet her betrothed that evening, and that Mme.

  39. Petit-Claud is the young lawyer of whom I spoke to you, madame; he will go through the trust accounts when your fair ward comes of age.

  40. The son of William George Ward tells in his biography how this leader of the "Tractarian Movement" met the problem with cynicism which seems almost sublime: "Make yourself clear that you are justified in deception; and then lie like a trooper!

  41. Accordin' to her conversation the last real sensation that came her way was when she went over to Brooklyn and heard Henry Ward Beecher preach.

  42. Rinaldo attacked him, but with as bad success as the rest, for the bridge-ward struck him so violent a blow with an iron mace that he fell to the ground.

  43. To approach it he had to encounter the same uncourteous bridge-ward who had already defeated and made captive so many knights, and last of all, Rinaldo.

  44. Rogero, always remembering that his antagonist was the brother of his betrothed, could not aim a deadly wound; he strove only to ward off those levelled against himself.

  45. A Committee on Intemperance, reporting to the Ward VIII.

  46. Beside the ward politician, the saloon-keeper, and the policeman, there are others who take an interest in the breadwinner.

  47. The saloon-keepers in Ward 10, Boston, complain that the new branch of the Public Library opened there has interfered with their business.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ward" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    administration; aegis; archbishopric; armament; armor; asylum; auspices; avert; bailiwick; bastion; beachhead; bishopric; blockhouse; borough; bridgehead; canton; care; castle; charge; citadel; city; clinic; commune; county; cure; custody; defend; defense; dependent; deter; diocese; dispensary; district; duchy; duck; electorate; emergency; encumbrance; forestall; fort; fortress; garrison; gerrymander; ghastly; government; guard; guardianship; guarding; guidance; hamlet; hand; hold; home; hospital; hundred; infirmary; inhibit; isolation; jurisdiction; keep; keeping; laboratory; lookout; magistracy; management; metropolis; ministry; minor; mote; nursery; obviate; oversight; parish; pastorate; patronage; peel; pensioner; pharmacy; picket; pillbox; post; precinct; preclude; preservation; prevent; principality; protection; province; region; resistance; riding; safeguard; safekeeping; sanatorium; security; sentry; shield; shire; sickroom; stake; state; stewardship; stronghold; surgery; territory; therapy; tower; town; township; trust; tutelage; village; ward; wardship; watch; watchman; wing