How to Use bodyguard in a Sentence

bodyguard

noun
  • They entered the building surrounded by bodyguards.
  • One of her bodyguards was killed in a shootout.
    — Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • His bodyguard didn’t say anything to him.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • His bodyguards came back and told him the convoy would not be able to pass.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • So, for now, my colleagues have asked me to go around with a bodyguard.
    — TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Sawyer the hot bodyguard/driver/meat-on-a-stick needs more scenes.
    — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 8 Feb. 2018
  • And most thanks of all to my bodyguard, who stopped me [from] getting shot twice.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 28 Feb. 2021
  • His bodyguard warned him fecal matter was found left in the bed.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Her bodyguards were by her side during her first few dates with Brunt.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • And Willoughby has been an adorable bodyguard.
    — Breanne L. Heldman, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • Prigozhin, two of his top lieutenants, four bodyguards and the plane's crew were killed in a crash.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Rocky also claims that one of the men hit his bodyguard with a pair of headphones.
    — Sydney Scott, Essence, 3 July 2019
  • Inside the house, there is an alarm, a bodyguard, and a panic room.
    — Tom Kellermann, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Sadat's bodyguard came, too, and wanted to sit on stage with her.
    — Terry Blain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Baraka had told his bodyguards to step aside when the agents came to make the arrest.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The bodyguards that were with him had wires in their ears, but they weren’t attached to anything.
    — Philly.com, 4 May 2018
  • Alu was a bodyguard for his wife, Kim Rothstein.
    — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
  • My guess for who dies is Rick and then some of the criminals or bodyguards.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Tom Brady is 41, can’t move much and now has lost a good, not great, bodyguard.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The bodyguard then put his arm around the president to protect him.
    — Sylvie Corbet, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
  • The bodyguards stood back and demanded to speak with the person in charge.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Franklin Pierce was the first president to have a full-time bodyguard.
    — Matt Viser, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • More than a dozen of the bodyguards were indicted, but the charges were later dropped.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Her plumage will protect her this winter, as will her unpaid bodyguards.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Seated in the hall next to his bodyguard, Putin snickered and slumped in his chair.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • At one point, one of the guys appears to throw headphones at Rocky’s bodyguard.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 July 2019
  • As well as his four bodyguards, the blast killed four bystanders and injured 16 more.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Arch is a rock star, but rock stars need bodyguards and the offensive line is running short on big uglies.
    — American-Statesman Editorial Board, Austin American Statesman, 14 Jan. 2026
  • He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards.
    — NBC news, 4 Jan. 2026
  • He was photographed walking his dogs alongside a bodyguard.
    — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026

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