How to use "guard" in a sentence

'Now, you two must go and keep guard in the street, one by the gate, one at the street corner.'

'Keeping guard barefoot in the snow.'

And then the guard is at the door, a short fat man who looks at us, smiles and then opens it without a single question

And the guard's smile disappears

We run up the stairs together, Robin with his gun at the guard's back

Little John puts a blindfold on the guard

Frank was there talking to a coast-guard, but I could not see Maxim.

She remained on guard for a few minutes, but the night was so peaceful that at last she had to admit she was alone

Two uniformed security men were performing first aid on the unconscious man, loosening his tie and collar, taking his pulse, while a third guard was keeping curious customers out of the way.

The third guard said, "Hi, Mike

Willis Bruckster was so sure he appeared dull and ordinary that he wouldn't have been surprised if a guard had looked at him and yawned.

A uniformed security guard shouldered through the mob of curious onlookers and stooped next to Bruckster

The guard tried to find a pulse but wasn't able to do so

"You never know," the guard agreed.

A guard shack stood to the right of the road, from which the gate was controlled.

They were no more than six or eight feet from the lighted shack, close enough to see the guard's face as he scowled at them through the large window.

Inside the hut, the guard plucked a telephone handset from the wall.

The guard slammed the receiver down

The guard stopped halfway to the Explorer and turned toward the gate when he saw it moving, unable to believe his eyes.

The guard swung the submachine gun into firing position as they swept past him.

Elliot held the vehicle on the pavement as they rounded the bend, and then they were out of the guard's line of fire

"He jinxed the guard's phone, opened the gate, and jammed the submachine gun

Or a grinning guard waiting to make an easy arrest?

But the young guard was the heroic type

When the young guard discovered that his revolver wouldn't work, he threw it.

Through sudden tears of pain, Elliot saw the young guard rushing him, and he squeezed off one whisper-quiet shot.

Blinking away tears, Elliot pointed the pistol at the older guard, who had drawn his revolver by now and had found that it didn't work either

"How'd you get in here?" the older guard asked, dropping his weapon as he'd been ordered

But the guard was insistent

The young guard wheezed in pain, but as far as Tina could see, he was not mortally wounded

"Shit," the guard said shakily.

Elliot tied the older guard securely to a chair

"How's your head?" Tina asked Elliot, gently touching the ugly knot that had raised on his temple, where the guard's gun had struck him.

They crossed the room, passing the guard who was bound and gagged in his chair

It opened onto a junction of two hallways, which Tina had discovered a few minutes ago, just after Elliot had shot the guard, when she had peeked through the door to see if reinforcements were on the way.

Danny seemed able to work miracles with inanimate objects, but he could not control people, like the guard upstairs, whom Elliot had been forced to shoot

Before he got to the guard shack at the upper gate, he climbed onto the ridge above, used the snowshoes to circle the guard, returned to the road, and threw the snowshoes away