Sentence examples for sitting guard from inspiring English sources

Many of his properties have small stone lions sitting guard on roofs and balconies.

Julie Fennell told the broadcaster: "He was just kind of sitting guard, like a statue, just sitting there watching over his friends body".

"He was just kind of sitting guard, like a statue, just sitting there watching over his friend's body," animal advocate Julie Fennell told a local NBC affiliate.

Deep in Sadr City, a few minutes' drive past the final government checkpoints, Mahdi fighters in recent days had been openly laying electrical command wires across streets and sitting guard on street corners beside caches of assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

Sitting guard was an art work from the nineteen-seventies, by Duane Hanson, titled "Secretary".

"We are tired of being in these brigades sitting around guarding things all day.

At a military checkpoint in eastern Baghdad, two gunmen approached and shot a guard sitting on a chair and another guard using the bathroom; two other guards were asleep, according to soldiers there.

With the first egg, one bird (or both) stays at the nest, sitting or standing guard.

We were sitting in a guard shack, waiting for vehicles to search and IDs to check.

There may even be a grim security guard sitting at a little table and inspecting passes.

here I am sitting before a guard fire writing at midnight with my knee for a desk and all around the fire are sleeping guards … it is not time to wright".