Sentence examples for everyone on guard from inspiring English sources

When I was on the delta, stories about a recent unfortunate incident between a young boy and a ravenous hyena kept everyone on guard, let alone the stories of poisonous puff adders that may or may not be slithering under our tents – our guide was a fan of the dramatics.

Everyone is on guard, everyone is nervous, everyone is alert".

If we live in a society where everyone is on guard against everyone else - if we "commodify" people and measure their value only in the dollars and cents we can wring out of them, we hobble the efforts of our government, our private institutions and ourselves to find the solutions we need to move confidently into the 21st century.

Such a climate puts everyone on their guard, fearful that their actions might be misinterpreted as dodgy.

But this one caught everyone off guard.

In a livestreamed Q&A panel between Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, and Niantic's developers this morning, Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto caught everyone off guard by dropping details on the release target for Pokemon Go Plus, the optional hardware accessory meant to act as a sort of physical tie-in to the game for when your phone isn't handy.

Everyone should be on guard against elder neglect and abuse, especially when there is a family member with dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Lewy Body disease, or advanced Parkinson's disease.

Everyone always seems on guard and ready to strike at the next person who glares at them.

Iraq's abrupt reversal in September caught everyone off guard.

He said the numbers had caught everyone off guard.

I think it took everyone off guard.