(n.) A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
(n.) Retinue; attendance; following.
Example Sentences:
(1) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
(2) After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down.
(3) Coulibaly protected Ouattara's wife from 1990 to 1993 when he was head of her bodyguard corps.
(4) All this while, 15 moai statues stand directly behind us, watching over us like bodyguards.
(5) We will all be martyred in this fight.” Attempted coup in Turkey: what we know so far Read more He sent his bodyguard to fetch his personal gun.
(6) "His driver was built like a bodyguard, had a mouthful of gold teeth and when I asked where he was from he answered, enigmatically, 'From up north'," said Mr Galloway.
(7) In October that year, two Sikh bodyguards to Indira Gandhi, the Indian prime minister, assassinated her, sparking anti-Sikh riots that killed more than 3,000 people.
(8) During two new London West End musicals – The Bodyguard and Viva Forever!
(9) Half a dozen bodyguards fan out from the trucks, and when they are in position, the Ace slowly climbs down from the driving seat of his gleaming landcruiser.
(10) He even served as a bodyguard at times, wading into crowds to grab protesters and facing misdemeanor criminal charges over allegedly manhandling a reporter.
(11) His phone’s contact list, prosecutors alleged, included the numbers of college friends and business associates, Hezbollah officials and bodyguards, family members as well as supposed girlfriends.
(12) VIPs, VVIPs or even VVVIPs – almost all government officials – can receive perks ranging from free housing in listed villas with staff paid by the government, bodyguards who act as personal assistants, free flights, unobstructed passage through airports or train stations as well as a significant degree of de facto legal impunity.
(13) Six of Barakat’s bodyguards were wounded, as well as two drivers and a passerby, Egypt’s health ministry told the Guardian.
(14) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(15) Hollywood films are routinely released in the world's most populous nation with offending material excised from the final cut: James Bond movie Skyfall arrived in January with references to Chinese torture of British agents and a scene in which a hitman shoots a Chinese bodyguard in Shanghai removed or revised.
(16) Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani had spent 14 years in Guantánamo, where he was held without trial and was suspected of being an al-Qaida member who “possibly” worked as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, according to his leaked prisoner file.
(17) She lives in a series of safe houses run by supporters, travels with bodyguards, wears a burqa and does not attend public meetingsliving in fear for her life.
(18) There were uniformed and plainclothed policemen, bodyguards for Lars that are with him 24 hours a day,” said Kolek.
(19) All 11 candidates have been issued with police bodyguards and a million-dollar fleet of bulletproof 4x4s; they are expected to get government helicopter rides to areas where the roads are too risky even for well prepared and protected convoys.
(20) He now tells only a handful of people where he intends to spend the night and travels in a convoy of 15 black Mercedes SUVs, with bodyguards, advisers, armed police and ministers.
Minder
Definition:
(n.) One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
(n.) One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Danziger, who flatly refused to go on an official trip to the circus, said gaining access was a daily battle, but in some cases their minders were more baffled than obstructive and couldn't understand why they wanted to meet hairdressers or fishermen.
(2) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(3) They asked why she was "running scared" of the media and being "gagged" by Tory minders when she was out on the stump.
(4) We haven’t escaped from the “minder” you apparently believe we should have, and you’re not about to be called on to become our carer.
(5) Jeremy Corbyn’s minders can put him into a smart blue suit for an interview with Jeremy Paxman – but with his position on Brexit, he will find himself alone and naked in the negotiating chamber of the European Union ,” she said.
(6) When we were finally taken to Dara'a, the southern city that had been the cradle of this insurrection, we travelled in the presence of four government minders and, when we attempted to talk to anyone, we found ourselves surrounded by Mukhabarat who instructed our interviewees to tell us everything was normal.
(7) But this is not that occasion, and in the beige-on-beige meeting room at Burberry's HQ in London, with David Yelland, the ex-editor of the Sun, and her PR minder in tow, it's not quite so chummy.
(8) In an attempt to show that Nato had struck non-military targets, government minders on Wednesday morning took journalists to see a "nature reserve", occasionally used by Gaddafi to entertain guests, that had been hit the previous evening.
(9) Journalist visas from the government are rare, and travel beyond a few square kilometres of central Damascus requires permission from the ministry of information and the accompaniment of a government minder.
(10) Danish child-minder Karsten Kaltoft was fired from his job because he was too overweight – at 25 stone – to tie a child's shoe laces.
(11) The beach photographs were taken when Andrea Rose, head of visual arts at the British Council, went for a swim with the minders, leaving Danziger free to wander along the water's edge with his camera, chatting to people and accepting food from beach barbecues.
(12) Minders again tried to stop journalists taking pictures.
(13) With Joleon Lescott, his supposed minder, having lost his man, Newcastle’s captain, unleashed a right-foot shot that Guzan should arguably have saved.
(14) In this fantasy land, there are no ropes, red tape, spin doctors or security minders to come between us and our idols.
(15) Last month, Gao slipped his minders to investigate claims of police torture and sexual abuse in Changchun, the provincial capital of Jilin.
(16) Journalists who have managed to leave it or another hotel without minders are detained by police or turned back at roadblocks.
(17) MI6 put Litvinenko on its payroll, gave him an encrypted phone and assigned him a minder, “Martin”.
(18) To suggestions that Hutchings is a loose cannon whose London minders (more evident on the doorstep than local activists) keep her firmly under control, he insists she is a "strong original, local voice".
(19) Libyan minders pushed and lashed out at the journalists, one of them drawing a gun, another smashing a CNN camera.
(20) The North Korean minders escorting us were furious, which perplexed me because the children were well-dressed and well-fed and obviously delighted to see their own images on screen for what was probably the first time.