How to Use unguarded in a Sentence

unguarded

adjective

• I let the secret about the surprise party spill out in an unguarded moment.
• The door to his cell was left unlocked that night and the jail unguarded.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2022
• Pelé shot towards the unguarded goal—but scuffed his kick and missed.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Loud, unguarded sobs that made her face flush and her shoulders heave.
  — Laila Lalami, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• Eichel slipped the puck through to an unguarded Shea Theodore.
  — Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
• For one, who decided to leave open the unguarded routes to the gate?
  — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
• Then, of course, finding unguarded moments with him was the goal.
  — Lauren Puckett, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2021
• There is something — many things — so unguarded about Halsey.
  — Allure, 14 July 2021
• Meanwhile, the king’s statue gleamed, unguarded, on its pedestal.
  — Wendy Bellion, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2022
• Rondo found an unguarded Davis cutting from the top of the key to the left wing and threw him the ball.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2020
• This unguarded track surfs along with its heart on its sleeve, plus a languid saxophone and a few great turns of phrase.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• This unguarded track surfs along with its heart on its sleeve, plus a languid saxophone and a few great turns of phrase.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 May 2024
• And the journey Bono goes through to do that, and to let go of it, is fierce and unguarded and moving.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 May 2025
• Two of them in particular came right at the goal when players were unguarded.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
• With Devers by the mound, Cruz saw an unguarded bag and took off for third.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
• Another entrance was a few hundred yards down the road; this one was unguarded.
  — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 13 June 2026
• Beaches were unguarded for a weekend in August due to low staffing.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022
• But the open-source tools available at the time were, in his telling, dangerously unguarded.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 May 2026
• Of the four drownings this year, three were after lifeguards left for the evening, and the other was in an unguarded area.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022
• Sheer rock walls loom on one side, while the other, which is largely unguarded, plunges to the narrow canyon below.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
• An unguarded look at the mental-health struggles of a young woman seemingly on top of the world.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• Butler beat Iowa’s zone coverage and raced unguarded for the score.
  — Scott Dochterman, ajc, 9 Sep. 2017
• The first is leaving out of the city port, where a few ships successfully slip out of the unguarded inlet.
  — Cody Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
• Oliver says in the hovering moment before a kiss, and this is a book with wide, unguarded eyes.
  — Charles Finch, New York Times, 31 May 2017
• Michael, now in his 20s, is tall and sturdily built and has an unguarded, earnest manner.
  — Brendan Borrell, Slate Magazine, 22 Sep. 2017
• An unguarded willingness to connect was the throughline of the evening.
  — Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2026
• The unguarded bias that emerged from reporters covering Ukraine isn’t new.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2022
• Sheer rock walls loom on one side, while the other, which is completely unguarded, plunges to the narrow canyon below.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Apr. 2025
• McIver, who is thirty-nine, with long dark hair and a ready smile, is personable and unguarded.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
• Four people swimming in an unguarded area were brought to shore and taken to a local hospital.
  — Doha Madani, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026