under guard

idiom

: in the position of someone (such as a prisoner) who is being watched by a guard

He was arrested and placed under guard.

Examples of under guard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While in custody, Dale Grogan reportedly began exhibiting increasingly erratic and self-destructive behavior, attempting to gouge out his own eyes while being held in the county jail, prompting deputies to intervene and transport him under guard to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment. —Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025

Aita suffered stab wounds to the abdomen, back, face and neck and collapsed in a stairwell; his girlfriend underwent surgery and is being held under guard at the hospital. —Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025

Today’s Cuban migrants like Pedro Lorenzo Concepción are being sent under guard to another tent city ⁠— Alligator Alcatraz. —Shirsho Dasgupta, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025

The new mechanism limits food distribution to a small number of hubs under guard of armed contractors, where people must go to pick it up. —Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025

Rhymes for under guard

• bodyguard
• boulevard
• disregard
• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard