stand guard/watch

idiom

: to stand in a position and guard or watch someone or something in order to look for possible danger, threats, etc.

A soldier stood guard by the door.

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Statues of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant stand guard behind the blue carpeted platform where Trump will stand. —

Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025 Burrowing owls like to stand watch outside their homes. —

Mark Degraff, The Mercury News, 14 Dec. 2024 Today a handful of rebel fighters from the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militia stand guard at the embassy, where the bulletproof glass has been tested by rifle rounds. —

Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024 Police stand guard in front of the main gate of the National Assembly in Seoul on December 3, 2024, after South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law. —

Yun Li,hakyung Kim, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stand guard/watch

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