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How to use bodyguard in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Bodyguard means a person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting someone. Example: “Due to the greatness of his size, he was an effective bodyguard.”

Examples of bodyguard by meaning

verbTo protect (someone or something).

  • The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.2005 March 7, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Burned Out’, Slate

More sentences with bodyguard

  • Due to the greatness of his size, he was an effective bodyguard.From the entry greatness
  • The actor arrived with an entourage of assistants and bodyguards.From the entry entourage
  • The topic splashed over me like icy cold water, cooling my instalust for my new bodyguard.2022, Brynn Paulin, Loving Layla, unnumbered page. From the entry instalust
  • Brit's bodyguards have been teaching Kev how to shoot a handgun," the New York Post says.2004 October 5, “Britney's new digs”, in The Age (Australia), retrieved 30 Oct 2008. From the entry cash cow
  • Hoggatt, an immense man built like a gorilla, as a bodyguard and smoke-blower.1957, Forbes Parkhill, The Wildest of the West, page 188. From the entry smoke-blower
  • Paris Hilton's bodyguard isn't "sliving" even if his client is.2022 April 25, Nardine Saad, “Paris Hilton's bodyguard goes viral after Coachella moment”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the…. From the entry sliving
  • The curtains of his office are still closed, but a soft, warm light filters past the bodyguards and into the room.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 327. From the entry gauntness
  • Sixteen active peasants were appointed to be his bodyguard; and two hundred more youths who joined him were called his foot-goers.2016, The Great Events of Global History, Vol. 9. From the entry footgoer
  • Grady was sloshed and kept wanting to hire the affable men away (he kept slipping them hundies) to be personal bodyguards.2013, Bruce Wagner, Still Holding. From the entry hundy
  • After one trip with them, he decided he couldn't stand to have bodyguards hulking around him wherever he went.1992, Richard Condon, The Venerable Bead, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry hulk
  • I pictured them as bodyguards, armed with a shotgun and responsible to support, aid, and protect the driver when confronted by robbers.2017, Margo Dewkett, “Fort Robinson State Park”, in Sage Meadows, Indianapolis, Ind.: Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry ride shotgun
  • With her bodyguard tailing closely, Holmes uttered her first public words since the TomKat split, telling the paper, "I'm all right, thank you."2012 July 4, Leslie Miller, “Katie Holmes breaks silence after divorce announcement”, in ABC 7. From the entry TomKat
  • From the briefcase he took two pairs of plasticuffs, and handed them to the first — and now entirely compliant — bodyguard.2003, Chris Ryan, The Hit List, page 230. From the entry plasticuffs
  • All round the hall, like glittering waxworks, stood the tall, bearded sowars of the Governor’s bodyguard, with pennoned lances in their hands.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 25”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry pennoned
  • But with a large Irish family to keep in potatoes and a livery of bodyguards that would have made Joseph Stalin look paranoid, he needed the cashola.2004, Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor, The second assistant: a tale from the bottom of the Hollywood ladder, page 201. From the entry cashola
  • The elfin bodyguard stared for a moment with those cool eyes through the silver tinted razorbladed glasses before proficiently shifting his right hand toward the earphone comm.2003, J. R. Urie, Assassin's Vendetta, page 14. From the entry proficiently

Meaning of bodyguard

  1. noun A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting someone.
  2. verb To act as bodyguard for (someone).
  3. verb To protect (someone or something).

Full definition of bodyguard

Questions about bodyguard in a sentence

How do you use bodyguard in a sentence?
Bodyguard is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Due to the greatness of his size, he was an effective bodyguard.”
What is a short sentence with bodyguard?
“Paris Hilton's bodyguard isn't "sliving" even if his client is.”
What does bodyguard mean?
Bodyguard means a person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting someone.

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