The guard kept watch.

Meaning: The person whose job is to protect the children while crossing the street continued to look at something or someone carefully or attentively.

Choice of Words: Guard is a person whose job is to protect or watch over something or someone. Kept means to continue to have or hold something. Watch means to look at something or someone carefully or attentively.

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Related Expressions

• The lighthouse keeper kept watch all night long.
• The mother bird kept watch over her precious eggs.
• Moon glowed, cast shadows, and kept watch.
• The stars, celestial companions, kept watch through the night.
• Owl kept watch over sleeping owlets.
• The moon kept watch over the sleeping world, casting a silver glow.
• The stars kept watch, like sentinels guarding the night.
• Stars kept watch over the dreaming world.
• Cat rested, moon kept watch, night ended peacefully.
• Mama bird kept watch over her precious eggs.