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How to use guardian in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Guardian means someone who guards, watches over, or protects. Example: “I think your guardian angel was working overtime this week. You're lucky to be unscathed.”

Examples of guardian by meaning

nounSomeone who guards, watches over, or protects.

  • As your Senior Tutor, I am your moral guardian,’ he said at last. ‘A moral guardian yearns for an immoral ward and the Lord has provided.1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 52

nounA major or final enemy; boss.

  • 'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'2004, James Newman, Videogames

More sentences with guardian

  • I think your guardian angel was working overtime this week. You're lucky to be unscathed.From the entry guardian angel
  • The guy who came upon the accident scene was my guardian angel. He doused the flames and called the paramedics.From the entry guardian angel
  • A: What a guardian angel that guy was to so many people. B: Yup. They don't make them like that anymore.From the entry they don't make them like that anymore
  • Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly, they say.2022, Dianne G. Poppert, Beyond Living Life Underneath: Reflections and Considerations. From the entry don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
  • Ioka is the name of the guardian spirit of the Khek community.2020, Vincent Hancock, Legends of the Dragonfly: Fighting the Communists During the Malaya Emergency, 1947-1960, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry Khek
  • Children gleefully embracing the unknown, while their adult guardians cower in fear?2017 November 16, Leah Schnelbach, “The Birth of Spielbergian: Close Encounters of the Third Kind at 40”, in Tor.com. From the entry Spielbergian
  • Thor, Redbeard, strong-armed wielder of Mjolnir, guardian of mankind, we make you welcome.2012, Hester Butler-Ehle, Hearth and Field: A Heathen Prayer Book, page 180. From the entry Redbeard
  • Guardians ad litem are the volunteer voices for children, investigating, reporting, going to court to advocate.2012 January 5, “Guardian ad litem: Sissies need not apply, only the good-hearted”, in Tampa Bay Times. From the entry guardian ad litem
  • Mums, dads, grandparents and guardians are invited to bring babies and toddlers along to the cinema.2006 July 23, “Cinema for mums”, in Times of Malta. From the entry nappy changer
  • Like "wolves in sheep's clothing" they appeared to have fooled the guardians of their prey.1978 February 17, Thomas Eisner, Karen Hicks, Maria Eisner, Douglas S. Robson, “‘Wolf-in-Sheep’s-Clothing’ Strategy of a Predaceous Insect…. From the entry wolf in sheep's clothing
  • The type of gbo differs, but some guardian of the entrance there will be.1956, A. W. Clements, Few Come Out (page 98). From the entry gbo
  • Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose.1911, Arnold Bennett, The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, London: Methuen Publishing, OCLC 492063506; republished Toronto…. From the entry scotch
  • By the ‘watchers’ are intended subaudité the guardians of the composer.1907, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, page 5. From the entry subaudi
  • Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.2021, Lora Mae Miller, Behold the King: Jesus in Every Book of the Bible. From the entry don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly
  • The guardian at the right, with mouth open, represents birth; the guardian on the left, with mouth closed, represents death.2018, Joan D. Stamm, A Pilgrimage in Japan, page 114. From the entry nio
  • Real talk here: you are my guardians against the darkness.2017, Susan Dennard, “Acknowledgments”, in Windwitch, Tor, published 2018, →ISBN. From the entry patronus
  • In honor of Blue’s “adoptaversary,” his new guardians threw a party, complete with balloons, cupcakes, and human and canine guests.2015, Ingrid Newkirk, “Blue: Blue’s Clues Lead to a Horrifying Discovery—and a Miraculous Escape”, in Love for Animals, Large and Small…. From the entry adoptaversary
  • The truth is that the child has not received any home training from his or her parents or guardian.2012, Charles O. Soyoye, Marriage, A Miracle of Completion. From the entry home training
  • I could see her as a guardian, very momly.2011, Gina Robinson, Pink Slipper. From the entry momly
  • “Ah, well, there are eudaimons, benevolent spirits, but in most cases these are thought to be guardian angels.”2008, Larissa Ione, Pleasure Unbound (Demonica), New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Forever, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry eudaimon
  • Mashallah, the cook, housekeeper and moral guardian of the family, had a different relationship with each of us.2006, Irene Gill, Oma, Mu and Me, APS Publishing. From the entry mashallah
  • Yidams are not to be equated with the patron saints or guardian angels found in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions.2004, Chogyam Trungpa, The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, volume 7. From the entry yidam
  • “Guardian dogs for some monastery in the Himalayas.2004, Jim Butcher, Blood Rites, Penguin, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry grandcestor
  • The frenzy was collective; even tiny meerkittens were making for the water, barely being held back by mothers and guardians.2001, Yann Martel, Life of Pi, Canongate, published 2003, →ISBN, page 267. From the entry meerkitten
  • Soulcrusher established his power in Valhalla itself where he trained the Nazguls and built a guardian to protect his privacy.2000, Fuzzy, “AD: [rom] Dawn of Empires - mud.dawnofempires.com”, in rec.games.mud.misc (Usenet). From the entry Nazgul
  • Hong Kong is an indifferent guardian of its past, with old buildings too frequently torn down in favor of nondescript high-rises.1999 April 18, Mark Landler, “WHAT'S DOING IN; Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2009…. From the entry City of Victoria
  • There were also talismen for the guardian kami.1988, Richard McGill, Omamori, page 234. From the entry talismen
  • At the Introibo he noticed at his right, as usual, his guardian angel, who acted as the angel mentioned by St.1959, Henri Béchard, The Visions of Bernard Francis de Hoyos, S.J.: Apostle of the Sacred Heart in Spain, a Biography, page 72. From the entry Introibo
  • My guardian angel had not been asleep at the switch.1934 October 5, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter X, in Right Ho, Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins […], →OCLC. From the entry asleep at the switch
  • But against a special form for the feminine gender, all guardians of good English and womanly dignity will be unalterably opposed.[1905, Robert Grier Cooke, “VII. English”, in Casual Essays of The Sun: Editorial Articles on Many Subjects, Clothed with the Philosophy…. From the entry astronomeress
  • The guardians of the world’s official geological timescale have firmly rejected a proposal to declare an Anthropocene epoch, after an epic academic row.2024 March 22, Damian Carrington, “Geologists reject declaration of Anthropocene epoch”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Anthropocene
  • Guardian Australia understands the Liberal states have caucused, and they want the newly elected Morrison government to reboot the Neg, or something very like it.2019 June 21, Katharine Murphy, “Australia's energy future: the real power is not where you’d think”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry caucus
  • Thus, by the end of the twentieth century, Christian scholars of Islam had become the unwitting guardians and perpetuators of the myth of Islamic tolerance.2005, Robert Spencer, The myth of Islamic tolerance. From the entry perpetuator
  • The Indians of the Amazon consider the Mai d’agoa, a pythonesque snake, to be the guardian of the Wild Lake of the Amazon.1997, Grace Hallworth, Mermaids and Monsters: Stories from the Sea, London: Mammoth, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry pythonesque
  • One can understand that the three agents fled into the adjacent archbishopdom where they could not be reached by the guardians of Riga's law.1995, Erik Tiberg, Moscow, Livonia and the Hanseatic League: 1487-1550 - Page 191. From the entry archbishopdom
  • The use of the property of an orphan by a guardian who carries out his guardianship, is allowed for the latter's daily subsistence.1994, Abdullah Alwi Haji Hassan, “Loans, Deposit and al-Ḥajr”, in Sales and Contracts in Early Islamic Commercial Law, Islamabad: Islamic…. From the entry usufruct
  • The allegorical figures standing on trimounts appear like guardians, flanking an archway formed by two fruit trees which frame the composite coat of arms.1987, Veronika Birke, Walter L. Strauss, The Illustrated Bartsch, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry trimount
  • Stewart, for instance, includes shamanism, curing, special powers of shamans, miscellaneous shamanistic information, guardian spirits, destiny of the soul, ghosts or soul, and jimsonweed.1960, James F. Downs, “Washo Religion”, in Anthropological Records, volume 16, number 9, University of California Press, pages 365-386. From the entry jimsonweed

Meaning of guardian

  1. noun Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
  2. noun A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).
  3. noun A person legally responsible for an incompetent person.

Full definition of guardian

Questions about guardian in a sentence

How do you use guardian in a sentence?
Guardian is used as a noun. For example: “I think your guardian angel was working overtime this week. You're lucky to be unscathed.”
What is a short sentence with guardian?
“There were also talismen for the guardian kami.”
What does guardian mean?
Guardian means someone who guards, watches over, or protects.

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