How to Use honor guard in a Sentence

honor guard

noun

• The wind lifted and furled the flag as the honor guard left the funeral home.
  — John Kuntz, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2019
• The woman’s wails could be heard as the honor guard gently closed the doors.
  — Mariam Khan, ABC News, 11 Feb. 2020
• 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 colors of the flag and honor guard will be posted, and retrieved.
  — Gregory Harutunian, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• Camp Pendleton Young Marines will serve as the honor guard.
  — Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2018
• Kober is part of the honor guard, which took part in the event’s ceremony.
  — Dallas News, 4 July 2022
• The Navy will conduct the burial with an honor guard and bugler.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
• The parade will include bands, floats, honor guards, ROTC units and more.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• 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 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
• 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 Olathe police honor guard was also on hand to greet Army Reserve 1st Sgt.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 25 Sep. 2017
• An honor guard of young soldiers, standing erect with pale, strained faces.
  — Timothy Garton Ash, The New York Review of Books, 26 Jan. 2023
• Dad began to perk up as the marching honor guard rounded the corner.
  — Robert M. Williamson, Orlando Sentinel, 1 July 2024
• Xi kicked off his four-day trip Tuesday with a state visit and was received with an honor guard and a 21-gun salute.
  — David Pierson, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• The honor guard, a lone soldier, solemnly walks down the chapel's center aisle, stands at attention at the head of the casket — and salutes.
  — Fox News, 17 Jan. 2023
• Officer Inn was hired in 2015 & was a member of our honor guard.
  — Lauren Hernández, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2021
• An honor guard of cadets carried the coffin into the garden.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Six members of an Air Force honor guard marched in unison toward the plane and then carried the coffin.
  — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• 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 mass began with a bagpiper leading honor guards down the center aisle of the towering church.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, Courant Community, 10 Sep. 2017
• Xi shook hands with the prince as an honor guard on horseback carried Saudi and Chinese flags.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022
• The Army will send an honor guard and conduct a full military service.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
• Duncan had spent nearly two decades with the state police, working in training, on the SWAT team and as part of the agency's honor guard.
  — Rebecca Woolington, OregonLive.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Spoehr recalled an honor guard lining the east side of the Capitol steps for the Obama-Trump transition.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 20 Jan. 2021
• The photos showed the honor guard waiting for and then carrying the casket, while the ground crew stood at attention.
  — Kendall Trammell, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
• The ceremony was replete with pomp: An honor guard marched ahead of Mr. Putin.
  — Anton Troianovski Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 7 May 2024
• Thankfully for one honor guard member in Texas last week, a 10-year-old boy was looking out for him.
  — Doug Criss and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 8 July 2019
• The strains of a bagpipe accompanied the entry of a uniformed honor guard.
  — David Montgomery, Star Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024