Sentence examples for acted as a guard from inspiring English sources

The Commandos provided extra firepower for the navy Motor Torpedo Boats when they were at sea and acted as a guard force when they were at anchor in the Norwegian fjords.

The plate was positioned parallel to the skin surface and acted as a guard to maintain a constant indentation of the probe into the skin of the testing site and to limit the spread of surface waves across the skin.

On 27 May 1916 Roberts arrived at Gorleston to act as a guard ship for the port of Yarmouth, in effect acting as a coastal defence battery.

LEGEND has it that the Sphinx of Giza acts as a guard, defending the pyramid-shaped tombs of the pharaohs behind it from undesirables.

Lay the cheese, then the pastrami, then the pickle slices (if you start with the cheese it will act as a guard against sog).

Apparently it also acts as a guard dog against moles, slugs, and other yard destroying pests.

In the final version, Elsa creates a single giant snow creature that Olaf nicknames "Marshmallow" to act as a guard after being branded as a monster for her powers.

Most steels have a wide part that acts as a guard at the top of the handle.

For the most part, they were Palestinian youths born in Lebanon who acted as a civil guard, maintaining order and protecting the camps.

Prizes not only encouraged writers to aim for the dead level of mediocrity, they acted as an advance guard for the forces of establishment reactionism — wielding money instead of guns: "Someone always foots the bill, of course, and when the outcome doesn't smartly show the feet, they are inclined to squeak," he wrote, "to meddle, or to withdraw their moral and monetary support".

His units then acted as an advance guard for the allied French units under Admiral Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing.