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Idioms and Phrases
Guard for protection or safekeeping, as in There were only two aides watching over that large group of children . This idiom was first recorded in 1526.Discover More
Example Sentences
Visitors today can keep watch over the scene in the booth at the end of the bar that Capone and his cronies once occupied.
One of the dwarfs remained at home every day to keep watch over her.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is keeping watch over financial-services companies.
I will probably watch over 300 hours of this game before the postseason starts.
"All one needed was a herd of cattle and a few people to watch over them," O'Connor declares.
For these reasons we keep strict and careful watch over them, since the suspicions conceived of them have been often verified.
During this period the thought of Bruno keeping his lonely watch over that blanket caused Harry many a sharp pain.
She felt assured that her daughter was received with maternal love by one who would ever watch over her with the tenderest care.
But the chamber that looketh towards the north shall be for the priests that watch over the ministry of the altar.
Two archbishops and four bishops watch over the spiritual health of this flock.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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