How to Use on guard against in a Sentence

on guard against

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• The main thing to be on guard against is inviting plant disease into the bush.
  — David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 15 Jan. 2026
• But the offensive line will have to be on guard against a Texans pass rush that has 28 sacks.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• So, be on guard against several factors conspiring against you that inspire you to eat more.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 6 Jan. 2022
• The director was on guard against the usual cliché of crowds in concert scenes where everyone seems to be acting in unison.
  — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024
• Whoever killed Mary was really aiming at the heart of the touched, which Amalia should have been on guard against.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2 May 2021
• One is always mindful and on guard against inadvertently saying something that should not be said.
  — Michel A. Ibrahim, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2025
• Whitmore said officers are on guard against further violence.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
• Users should also be on guard against phishing emails that can contain malware capable of taking over your computer.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 4 May 2022
• With giant walls made from the nearby towering timber, the residents are on guard against the infected.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 Apr. 2025
• Nevertheless, investors are now on guard against the risks that could come from any unintended consequences from sour loans.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
• Iran’s new authorities will be on guard against any form of popular uprising, which Trump called for in the early days of the war.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
• Parents of allergic tots are constantly on guard against exposures that can lead to emergency room visits.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 11 May 2023
• Those nonprofit groups served as conduits for money, from the states to individual feeding sites, and they were supposed to be on guard against fraud.
  — David A. Fahrenthold, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• As a result, MoneyGram is urging its users to be on guard against fraud and to monitor their credit reports.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024
• And of course Wendy tells Nibs the truth, putting them both on guard against the manipulations of their seemingly benevolent guardians.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
• Burgum will need to be on guard against letting bureaucratic turf wars harm the administration’s policy goals.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Nov. 2024
• Consumer Reports is among the advocates warning shoppers to be on guard against buy now, pay later loans, saying some come with high interest rates and fees.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
• In the meantime, Google is advising business owners to be on guard against potential scam activity.
  — PCMAG, 29 Nov. 2022
• An outbreak in crime has stirred emotions here, and Democrats are on guard against Republican accusations that their policies are to blame.
  — Thomas Beaumont, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
• Israeli officials will be on guard against Hamas extending talks in bad faith, using the time to reconstitute its military.
  — Laura Kelly, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
• Parents of allergic tots are constantly on guard against exposures that can turn birthday parties and play dates into emergency room visits.
  — Lauren Neergaard, The Enquirer, 11 May 2023
• Meanwhile, enterprises must also be on guard against the rapidly mounting threat from attacks fueled by agentic AI.
  — Pieter Danhieux, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• No one, especially children, should have to constantly be on guard against people trying to steal money, information or their innocence.
  — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
• The imperative to be on guard against anthropomorphism infuses almost every aspect of modern life.
  — Eleanor Cummins, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
• Recent efforts in Ohio and by the Biden administration show that families must be on guard against continuing attacks by ideologues on their kids.
  — Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review, 19 Nov. 2023
• Now these schools in the nation’s capital and others across the country are warning their communities to be on guard against the potential spread of monkeypox in the coming weeks when students return to campus for the fall term.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022
• Chevalier cautioned voters against buying into Abbott’s narrative that parents must be on guard against overreaching educators.
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2022
• Some Central Florida water parks are shutting down, and farmers are on guard against frost that could threaten Florida’s fragile citrus industry.
  — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
• Such a move would never be tolerated or accepted by a footballing environment that remains deeply suspicious of commercialism and militantly on guard against any move in that direction.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
• Vaccine distribution plans in the Washington region are picking up while coronavirus cases have continued to surge, as local health officials urge residents to be on guard against infections.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020