How to Use safeguard in a Sentence

safeguard

1 of 2 noun

• The new law has safeguards to protect the rights of citizens.
• There are many safeguards built into the system to prevent fraud.
• Is a band of gold a safeguard against a change of heart?
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Sep. 2023
• The city council did approve a host of new safeguards last year.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024
• Monk could be the safeguard the Panthers are looking for.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2024
• Austin has a similar safeguard that has been in place since 2010.
  — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• And so librarians have been at the forefront of looking at: What are some of the safeguards?
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• But the single password locking it down might be the only safeguard between you and someone up to no good.
  — Kim Komando, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024
• After its close call in 2022, Con Ed switched its Manhattan steam and power plant over to oil as a safeguard.
  — Tom Winter, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• Unless, that is, the website owner has put in certain safeguards to keep AI crawlers out, but more on that in a second.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• And states will need to use the time bought by regulation to create workable safeguards.
  — Markus Anderljung and Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2023
• Thankfully, there are some safeguards for those at risk.
  — Mark Miller, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Only in recent years have some on the left tried to remove this important safeguard.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 17 Jan. 2023
• The safeguards that attempted to counter the bogus claims the last time are eroding, while the tools and systems that create and spread them are only getting stronger.
  — Ali Swenson, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
• The strings: The United States has attached several safeguards on its funding.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Mar. 2023
• Experts say there aren’t enough safeguards in place to keep voters from getting misled.
  — Rina Chandran, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
• Police came and took Lillis to the hospital, as a safeguard against hypothermia.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2023
• As a safeguard against storm surge, the building’s four wings were set atop pillars four meters above the ground, which put them nearly six meters above sea level.
  — Boyce Upholt, WIRED, 19 Nov. 2022
• After decades of scandals, there have been attempts to put some safeguards around carbon markets.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Can suicides, on the rise from gunfire, be reduced or prevented with safeguards?
  — Christine Spolar, NPR, 6 Mar. 2024
• Ideally, Graye adds, this scenario should never come to fruition if proper safeguards are in place.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 6 Feb. 2024
• Government agencies must build in safeguards to avoid graft.
  — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
• The modern plasma industry has put safeguards in place.
  — Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
• Those words were supposed to be a safeguard against eternal suffering after death.
  — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• Meta made clear in Tuesday’s post these safeguards will be limited to static images.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2024
• Now is the time for lawmakers to enact meaningful safeguards to protect our kids.
  — Teresa Huizar, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• People opt for various safeguards, from wrapping the oyster in a dish towel to wearing work gloves.
  — Hannah Lee Leidy, Bon Appétit, 14 Dec. 2023
• They’re both vaccinated against it, but as with the human flu shot, that’s not a total safeguard against infection.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 July 2023
• What gives: Legal safeguards are in place to protect patients from big bills for some out-of-network care, including air-ambulance rides.
  — Molly Castle Work, NPR, 25 Mar. 2024
• However, reinforcement learning is not the only method for adding safeguards to AI chatbots.
  — Maxwell Zeff and Thomas Germain / Gizmodo, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024

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safeguard

2 of 2 verb

• There are steps you can take to safeguard against identity theft.
• You need to safeguard your computer against viruses.
• And then the fact that they are meant to be safeguarding the deep ocean.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
• But they’re forced to fight for a voice in safeguarding it.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
• Wanting to safeguard ties to Britain, the D.U.P. feared that the sea border was the first step to tearing them apart.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• How rare — how very rare — is the country that safeguards freedom of speech.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Mar. 2023
• India’s project to safeguard them has been praised as a success by many.
  — Sibi Arasu, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
• Taiwan will use strength to safeguard peace and stability across the strait.
  — Hou Yu-Ih, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
• Beyond sunscreen, a wide-brimmed hat can help safeguard your skin from the sun's damaging rays.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2023
• In an average club game, where some pairs will stop at game, South might safeguard the contract.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
• If camping in an area with bears, a secure cooler is a must to safeguard your provisions and yourself.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
• No estimate was available of when the tracks would reopen or what may be necessary to safeguard the slope.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• Named for Kurt Benirschke, who founded the Frozen Zoo, the horse was cloned from skin cells taken from a stallion in 1980 and cryogenically safeguarded.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2023
• This will be the fifth phase of the work that, with a final sixth phase in preliminary planning stages, is intended to safeguard the tracks in place until 2050.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2024
• That gift card can be used to buy a case and screen protector to safeguard your new smartphone or to lower your out-of-pocket cost on a larger purchase.
  — Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 11 May 2023
• The sheer scale of the company’s business has even safeguarded Denmark from a recession.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
• To safeguard your vision, here's how to make a box pinhole projector with common household items.
  — John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2024
• The painter, who never married and had no heirs, created the Hilma af Klint Foundation through her estate to safeguard her legacy.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Scary times indeed, but HR consultant Lorna Bates says there are ways to safeguard yourself.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 4 Jan. 2024
• But nestled in so many songs are tender pledges to safeguard and nurture, obvious forms of love letters to her children.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
• Putting in motion the following steps will give you options for safeguarding your career: 1.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• The scammers promise to safeguard the assets in a protected account.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
• Workers wanted to safeguard the 500-pound statue against the storm’s wind and rain after a drone recently captured footage showing damage to the base.
  — David Sharp, ajc, 16 Sep. 2023
• This stylist favorite safeguards your hair from heat styling and UV damage while adding noticeable thickness and volume.
  — Theresa Holland, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
• Another staffer, who is a retired Army sergeant, then herded all of the staffers into an office to safeguard them, Connolly said.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 15 May 2023
• The island is a haven for other reasons, too: its steep and rocky coastline climbs to the height of a 60-story building, safeguarding seabird habitat even as seas continue to rise.
  — Tim Lydon, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
• There had never been such fear, among the people who safeguard her, that Barbie might be staring down irrelevance.
  — Willa Paskin, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Arkansas claimed its law was passed in order to protect children and to safeguard medical ethics.
  — Mark Satta, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
• The phone case has a slim, barely-there appearance but is still protective enough (with up to 10-foot drop protection) to safeguard against scratches and breaking.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2023
• On the Illinois side, lawmakers are scrambling to pass a bill that would protect wetlands from development and pollution, in order to safeguard water quality and limit flooding.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024