Sentence examples for gate guards from inspiring English sources

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gate guards

noun

Plural of gate guard

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A metal security gate guards the small courtyard, while drab curtains and collapsed Pampers boxes cover the windows, blocking the summer sun.

"The Army had a most severe problem," said James L. Long III, chief executive of Wackenhut Services in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. "You literally had thousands of military police, national guardsman and reservists working as gate guards.

The beach gate guards we met never asked why we didn't just go swimming in our own town, why we didn't just go to the state parks (which were next-door to three of the beaches), or, outside of Greenwich, the most pressing question, one that I asked myself repeatedly during my trip, why would anyone pay these outrageous prices?

"The reason for the privatization of gate guards is to free up the war-fighter from doing garrison support and do what they are trained to do, which is go and fight," said Jerome Kelly, a spokesman for the Installation Management Agency, a division of the Army that manages military bases.

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Entry is through an imposing gate guarded by militia jeeps sporting anti-aircraft machine guns.

Within a few hundred feet we came to a high walled gate guarded by American soldiers; we were entering the Green Zone by the back door.

She groggily unlocks the security gate guarded by the family Doberman and waits in the glare of the Pemex filling station for the bus to the border.

Walk up four flights, pass a gate guarded by three little girls, and step through someone's kitchen at the end of the hall.

By around 11.50am, Ammon and a group of protesters were 150 yards from the cattle, which were protected by a makeshift metal gate guarded by two officers.

As one example, Major Schmeling pointed to a police officer who a year ago was a lowly patrolman and gate guard.

Instead of the old dirt track, there's a paved road leading to a high wooden gate guarded by sentries and, beyond it, makeshift barracks and a tower for spotting enemy aircraft.

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