Definition: 1. A separate room or area in a hospital for people with the same type of medical condition. 2. A person who is under the protection or in the custody of another.
Use 'ward' in a sentence:
1. Most corallum is broken up to be transported coast-ward along tidal channels by the tempest tide.
2. Alex was made a ward of court.
3. In Julie's ward, her parents stood in quiet desperation.
4. Ask to speak to the sister on the ward.
5. Patents were filed more for strategic purposes, to be used as bargaining chips to ward off infringement suites or as a means to block competitors' products.
6. She put up her hands to ward him off.
7. Mr Ward wasn't a rogue at all.
8. She may have put up a fight to try to ward off her assailant.
9. They could not smell the putrid mud that covered the ninth ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina passed.
10. After the girl's parents died, she was made a ward of her uncle and aunt.
11. They transferred her to the psychiatric ward.
12. The ward was busy and Amy hardly had time to talk.
13. The child was made a ward of court.
14. Until the doctor arrived from elsewhere on the ward, Amy was in charge.
15. He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.
16. Such a thin padded coat cannot ward off the cold mountain wind.
17. A toddler was admitted to the emergency ward with a wound in his chest.
18. They feel scared and powerless in conveyor-belt hospital wards.
19. Hayley contracted tuberculosis and had to be put in an isolation ward.
20. County manager Jason Ward said in a statement, "I'm not pleased that so many bees were killed."
21. He always carries a stick to ward off wild dogs.
22. Nurses on duty make two rounds ( of the wards) during the night.
23. Anything could have happened in a ward.
24. The man forced his way out as he warded off the blows.
25. She raised her hand to ward off a blow.
26. As soon as we found this out, we closed the ward.
27. This problem is likely to be the way Ward chooses to describe that catastrophe.
28. Have a drop. It'll ward off the cold of the night.
29. He tiptoed out of the ward.
30. Toronto hospital maternity wards were filled to capacity.
31. He passed through the doorway into Ward B.
32. Some people think taking vitamin C can ward off colds.
33. They were used as medicines to ward off diseases, and mixed into perfumes, incent.
34. They included "The Round House", by Louise Erdrich, "Salvage the Bones", by Jesmyn Ward and the short story "Corrie" by Alice Munro.
35. He landed in a psychiatric ward.
36. As any geriatric ward shows, that is not the same as to confer enduring mobility, awareness and autonomy.
37. We have one bed available in ward 3, send him here and I will take care of him.
38. The main part of the hospital is pretty dismal but the children's ward is really lively.
39. 'Would you like to move into the ward?' — 'A kind thought, but no, thank you.'
40. She dialed the number and asked for the ward.
41. Ward is not the most consistent of players, but when he is on song he looks a world-beater.
42. In the district hospital's maternity ward, a wrinkled old woman walks out holding a just-born girl wrapped in a dirty rag like an unwelcome present.
43. Many people swear by vitamin C's ability to ward off colds.
44. Today, the European Union is creating a $580 billion fund to ward off sovereign collapse.
45. Dr Green was on her daily ward rounds.
46. He worked as a nurse on the children's ward.
47. I'm a poor man, madam. Arrange a third-class ward for me, please.
48. He managed to free one hand to ward off a punch.
