Sentence examples for single guard from inspiring English sources

But a single guard is usually enough.

Only a single guard was stationed out front, a machine gun in his hand, an ammunition belt across his shoulder.

(A longtime embassy employee remembers that security was so lax in the early days that a single guard stood at the door, supporting himself with a cane).

I turned around and saw Boniek Garcia putting his bag through the metal detector, unnoticed by all except a single guard.

Such comity also means that the musicians — and I during rehearsals — felt comfortable among inmates with only a single guard in sight.

They were prisoners from one of two nearby jails on a work assignment who, as far as I could see, were without a single guard supervising them.

At Apple's new campus in Cupertino, Calif., visitors are required to enter through a single, guarded entrance.

The special three-judge panel described a chaotic system where prisoners were stacked in triple bunk beds in gymnasiums, hallways and day rooms; where single guards were often forced to monitor scores of inmates at a time; and where ill inmates died for lack of treatment.

A single security guard sits in the gloomy half-light of the reception area.

A single university guard was posted yesterday in front of the office where the dean was sitting when he was shot.

By 4 November, two of the EU's most isolationist countries – Poland and Slovakia – had not sent a single border guard, while Hungary had sent just four.