Sentence examples for quite guarded from inspiring English sources

"There's an element of Ferran that is still quite guarded, possibly because he's had to become like that," says Blumenthal, who says he communicates with his friend in a mixture of pidgin English and pidgin French, "But I heard stories that years ago when they'd just [introduced his new style of cuisine] there were four days when they had nobody in the restaurant.

She was, even then, quite guarded.

[Yeah. So you have to be quite guarded.] Yeah, you can't, because, what I know about you is, okay, if I find something, I'll exploit it.

In contrast, I am quite guarded in regular conversation.

"I became quite guarded [off-stage], I think, and ready for a fight.

"The overall prognosis is quite guarded," said her doctor, James Garvin, an attending physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

We know -- and Abbie knows -- that Ichabod is a married man, and she's quite understandably guarded with her emotions in any case.

Ms. Sontag's admirers are not mass market and probably care less about her private life, which she has guarded quite well, than about her writing and her causes.

Now each stands in the other's way of a sixth title, quite literally — Fisher guarded Bryant on two consecutive possessions in the fourth quarter of Game 3. Bryant promptly hit two shots over him.

I have guarded quite a few ex-college players and even some celebrities — the comic Kevin Hart last year and Will Smith back in his "Fresh Prince" days (he dunked backward over me, alas).

But Yan, writing roughly two and a half centuries later, is more guarded: not quite comic, not quite tragic, more earnest than uproarious in tone.