GUARDIAN in a Sentence

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79 example sentences for GUARDIAN, such as:

1. His aunt is his legal guardian.
2. You will please consider me your guardian.
3. In the absence of a will the courts decide who the guardian is.
4. The child's parents or guardians must give their consent before she has the operation.
5. In medieval mythology, gnome was the special guardian and inhabitant of subterranean mines.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUARDIAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
guardian
 n.  one who guards, preserves, or secures; one who has, or is entitled to custody of person or property
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  And this, I fear, is all that can be said for the conduct of one, who was at once her uncle and guardian.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
2  You will please consider me your guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
3  I am going up to my guardian in London," said I, casually drawing some guineas out of my pocket and looking at them; "and I want a fashionable suit of clothes to go in.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
4  My guardian threw his supplicant off with supreme indifference, and left him dancing on the pavement as if it were red hot.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
5  Another clerk was rung down from up stairs to take his place while he was out, and I accompanied him into the street, after shaking hands with my guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XX
6  Your guardian was not at that time in Miss Havisham's counsels, and she was too haughty and too much in love to be advised by any one.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
7  Mr. Pocket did not object to this arrangement, but urged that before any step could possibly be taken in it, it must be submitted to my guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIV
8  It fell out as Wemmick had told me it would, that I had an early opportunity of comparing my guardian's establishment with that of his cashier and clerk.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
9  She set the dish on, touched my guardian quietly on the arm with a finger to notify that dinner was ready, and vanished.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
10  We took our seats at the round table, and my guardian kept Drummle on one side of him, while Startop sat on the other.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
11  Dinner went off gayly, and although my guardian seemed to follow rather than originate subjects, I knew that he wrenched the weakest part of our dispositions out of us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
12  As the door was not yet shut, I thought I would leave Herbert there for a moment, and run up stairs again to say a word to my guardian.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
13  No, no," my guardian assented; "don't have too much to do with him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
14  At last we went back into the house, and there I heard, with surprise, that my guardian had come down to see Miss Havisham on business, and would come back to dinner.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
15  As I drew her down into her chair, I was conscious of a scent that I knew, and turning, saw my guardian in the room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
Example Sentence:
1  The movie allows admission only to persons older than 17, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
2  I think the contrast could not be much greater between a sleek gander and a fierce falcon: between a meek sheep and the rough-coated keen-eyed dog, its guardian.
3  In medieval mythology, gnome was the special guardian and inhabitant of subterranean mines.
4  Somebody, unseen, rang the bell merrily; then Adele (who had insisted on being one of her guardian's party), bounded forward, scattering round her the contents of a basket of flowers she carried on her arm.
5  She has become the self - appointed guardian of the nation's conscience.
6  His aunt is his legal guardian.
7  In the absence of a will the courts decide who the guardian is.
8  The self-declared guardians of law and order held a press conference.
9  The child's parents or guardians must give their consent before she has the operation.
10  Families can become guardians to a child, as long as the child's true paternity is maintained.