Sentence examples for be wards from inspiring English sources
noun
A guard; a guardian or watchman.
Most children and teenagers stuck in psychiatric hospitals tend to be wards of the state, many unable to return home.
In a neglect proceeding it may show that children should be wards of the State because the present parent(s) or guardian does not provide suitable care.
Native children are eight times more likely than other Canadian children to be wards of child protection services, according to Wilson.
In 1957 Commonwealth law declared most Indigenous Western Australians to be wards of the state – that is, in need of government protection.
Her casting caused an internet ripple because she is African American, as though Hollywood hasn't wilfully changed characters' race before, or as if only redheads were allowed to be wards of the state.
The RAC has interpreted Mansfield's decision as finding Indigenous groups to be "wards of the state" and said the decision enforced a two-tier system which allowed greater rights of dispute resolution to non-Indigenous people.
We don't want them to be ward heelers.
And, obviously, that has to be warded off completely".
Could the Buzzer be warding one off?
They are to be warded off simply because they are suffering.
But sarcopenia can be warded off.
