The phrase "a sort of guard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that functions similarly to a guard or provides a protective role, but is not a traditional guard.
Example: "The new security system acts as a sort of guard for the building, monitoring all entrances and exits."
Alternatives: "a kind of protector" or "a type of sentinel."
In Syria, the Alawites stand as a sort of palace guard, with everything to lose.
Although he was a troubled youth, "thrown out of that family like a carton of bad milk" at fifteen after stealing a car, he was also Drew's childhood protector, a sort of security guard even then.
For now, their ranks have three elements: a so-called "special forces" detachment of former soldiers and police officers; a main column organized into self-led cells of fighters built around a few weapons and pickup trucks; and a sort of home guard that is undergoing quick training to man checkpoints and serve as a civil defense force. 1 2 Next Page ».
According to Carlos Escarrá, a chavista legislator, it is "disingenuous" of opponents to suggest that the militia "will be a sort of praetorian guard for the president".In this section The Pacific players go to market When toucans can't A Caribbean Tripoli?
By L. N. Freschl and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, October 29, 1938 P. 13 At the threat of war, the command went out for the mobilzation of the defense passive, a sort of home guard detailed to keep order in Paris during bombings.
The European Ombudsman, a sort of conduct guard for E.U. institutions, "spent quite a lot of time investigating this, and in the end ruled that we had to release the data," says Martin Harvey-Allchurch, EMA's head of communications.
Van Gundy sounded today as if he were viewing Sunday's gantlet as a sort of test for the guard tandem.
That could be especially true this year for a European team that is fielding five rookie players, a development that the team captain, Alison Nicholas, referred to as a sort of "changing of the guard".
