sentry
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Soon, I was bicycling to Harris Teeter for cornbread ingredients, where Harry the Happy Dragon — a coin-operated green kiddie ride — stood sentry outside the entrance.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Standing sentry, bizarrely, were tall, cartoonish statues — half storm troopers, half USC Trojans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
An outpost for 30 soldiers with a couple of sentry points and barracks will burn through about 13 gallons of fuel a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
Barcelona stretched out in every direction, a mosaic of old stone, glass and spire, Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia standing like an undone sentry among the rest.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025
He returned with a heavy, stolid Owsla sentry named Ragwort, who at first had some difficulty in understanding what it was that the General wanted to know.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Immune cells act like vigilant sentries, moving through tissues and detecting remaining cancer cells that could lead to relapse.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2025
The blimps housed there were used as sentries during WWII, armed with machine guns, bombs and charges to fend off submarines, The Times reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Wing Commander Douglas Bader ranked as the greatest war hero in the prison and was met on arrival with salutes from German sentries.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
It is the difference between planting sentries at the gates to bar intruders and trying to oust them after they had already stormed the castle.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
He would go through the woods to St. Ninian’s Church, avoiding the road that was being watched by sentries.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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