Sentence examples for a single guard from inspiring English sources
But a single guard is usually enough.
Only a single guard was stationed out front, a machine gun in his hand, an ammunition belt across his shoulder.
(A longtime embassy employee remembers that security was so lax in the early days that a single guard stood at the door, supporting himself with a cane).
I turned around and saw Boniek Garcia putting his bag through the metal detector, unnoticed by all except a single guard.
They were prisoners from one of two nearby jails on a work assignment who, as far as I could see, were without a single guard supervising them.
It could take as long as a half-hour to figure out how to kill a single guard: I tried one idea after another until I finally found a way to take out the enemy without raising the alarm.
A single security guard sits in the gloomy half-light of the reception area.
By 4 November, two of the EU's most isolationist countries – Poland and Slovakia – had not sent a single border guard, while a third, Hungary, had sent four.
By 4 November, two of the EU's most isolationist countries – Poland and Slovakia – had not sent a single border guard, while Hungary had sent just four.
Still, the helicopter pilot later reported that he had not seen a single prison guard in the courtyard when he landed.
This was the thinking behind Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, a model for a jail where a single watching guard could survey a whole prison of inmates (the model, by the way, for Zamyatin's One State).
