How to Use honor guard in a Sentence

honor guard

noun
  • Members of the honor guard stood next to the door.
    — Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 28 June 2025
  • There was an honor guard with trumpets.
    — John Carlisle, Freep.com, 31 May 2025
  • The honor guard stands to the side, fixed in their positions.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The woman’s wails could be heard as the honor guard gently closed the doors.
    — Mariam Khan, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2020
  • An honor guard of young soldiers, standing erect with pale, strained faces.
    — Timothy Garton Ash, The New York Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2023
  • There will be speakers, an honor guard and the names of locals who have died will be read.
    — Heather McRea, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Pendleton Young Marines will be the honor guard.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
  • The wind lifted and furled the flag as the honor guard left the funeral home.
    — John Kuntz, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2019
  • The colors of the flag and honor guard will be posted, and retrieved.
    — Gregory Harutunian, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Kober is part of the honor guard, which took part in the event’s ceremony.
    — Dallas News, 4 July 2022
  • The tuba player slipped his big bell off his shoulder and the honor guard leaned on their flagstaffs.
    — E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • Camp Pendleton Young Marines will be the honor guard.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
  • Dad began to perk up as the marching honor guard rounded the corner.
    — Robert M. Williamson, Orlando Sentinel, 1 July 2024
  • Then suddenly, the honor guard switched to the goose step, but only for short time, less than a dozen paces.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The Navy will conduct the burial with an honor guard and bugler.
    — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • The first honor guard was formed in 2002 in Kansas.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
  • Hundreds of workers, soldiers and an honor guard of sailors were waiting.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • The parade would start and end with the city police, an honor guard up front, a cruiser bringing up the rear.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The city will raise a 60-foot flag with an honor guard and the singing of the national anthem.
    — Kari Barnett, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • The military members of the honor guard stood mannequin-still.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The Army will send an honor guard and conduct a full military service.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Cousins who in some cases had not seen one another in years watched as an honor guard fired a 21-gun salute.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2022
  • An airport police honor guard then performed a 21-gun salute and a trumpeter played taps.
    — Loren Holmes, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021
  • And the ceremony is just as meaningful to the honor guard.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2026
  • The mass began with a bagpiper leading honor guards down the center aisle of the towering church.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, Courant Community, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The sheriff was flanked by an honor guard as American flags were placed in the hands of their relatives.
    — NBC News, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The two shook hands and were greeted by an honor guard, a red-carpet and an assembly of dignitaries on palace grounds.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Their caskets will be draped with American flags as they're moved by an honor guard from the aircraft used to bring them home.
    — Cooper Worth, Des Moines Register, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The strains of a bagpipe accompanied the entry of a uniformed honor guard.
    — David Montgomery, Star Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Xi shook hands with the prince as an honor guard on horseback carried Saudi and Chinese flags.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022

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