Sentence examples for as if to guard from inspiring English sources

Most dramatically, extending down the garden's center are columns of organ pipe cactuses, planted as if to guard the prickly pear cactus gathered nearby.

Some of those homes sit abandoned, plywood boards nailed across doors and windows, as if to guard against further spread of this plague.

He, too, is six years his junior yet moves now with a measured stiffness, as if to guard against any return of the crippling lower disc problem that cut him down just over a year ago.

Neopagans namely those who not only ascribe to the use of runes, but often also truly see themselves as pagans have to guard themselves if they don't want to be seen as neo-Nazis (a topic I addressed with the leading Neopagan Einar Selvik von Wardruna).

At times on Monday night he looked as if he would struggle to guard a mannequin.

The building of the ministries, ten stories high and three-quarters of a mile long, includes two cavernous arches, which lead into the main square before the Presidential Palace, as if to say, "We guard the President, but you are welcome in".

Later, James plowed right through Green, driving for the layup and then looking at Green as if to say, "You cannot possibly guard me".

A vigilante with an AK-47 stood guard as if to tell the Americans that they are in for a fight if they return.

As if to punctuate the melee, a CA guard then shoots the family's youngest daughter dead.

As a birder myself, I recognize the symptoms: I've travelled great distances to see birds; I've totted up the names of birds on lists and felt weirdly comforted, as if they guarded me against oblivion; I've listened, like Jack Black's character, to birdcalls on my iPod.

"One of his guards approached him, as if to deliver a message," said a man who was working at the palace that day.