sentinel

The steely husks stood sentinel over unfathomable loss for weeks or months until they were towed away and sold as scrap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

The mean rescue sentinel did not think so.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

The church stood empty like a silent sentinel over a small cemetery next to it.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

Intriguingly, the system being attacked normally works as a sentinel or guard, whose job it is to detect invading viruses.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

His face pressed hard against the trunk of the sentinel.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

“We stand on the walls, sentinels of the inner sanctum, against the assault of AI slop. The Ontology is based firmly in reality—there is, here, a dialectic between ground truth, tribal knowledge, and enhancements.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

“We stand on the walls, sentinels of the inner sanctum, against the assault of AI slop,” Karp said in his letter to shareholders.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

A few rise above head-height, the most energetic sentinels of regeneration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

"We always say these animals are sentinels because they feel first what's going to come to us. It's happening to them, it's going to happen to us."

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2023

Maybe it wasn’t bad, Sarai thought—she prayed—as she reached back out for her remaining sentinels.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

As by the elms that line its street, the hills that watch its roofs, Lyme, Conn., is sentineled by artistic good usage, fortressed by aesthetic tradition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eight Corinthian pillars sentineled it, resting on a marble base which seemed to spring up out of the flag-stones themselves, and towering to the projecting entablature above.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

A fort, mounting eight guns, sentineled the approach to the city from beneath, while the heights above were guarded by a three-banked battery.

From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

The prison was both civil and military, but was patrolled and sentineled by soldiers.

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

This road is sentineled all the way to camp.

From Then Marched the Brave by Anna S. Hicks

He was stationed at Fort Knox, where he sentinelled the country’s gold reserves.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017

Williamstown, sentinelled with maple trees, smiles at the Berkshires.

From Time Magazine Archive

A range of arid hills rose darkly before him, stretching east and west further than his eye could follow—rugged, forlorn hills covered with a thick prickly undergrowth, and sentinelled by phantom-like pines.

From The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Frigidian and Cardens sentinelled the mouth of the Lough at Moville and Coleraine.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various

I think of it As the Celestial City, paved with gold, And sentinelled with angels.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The two great poplar-trees, sentineling what had once been the gate of the old Gordon homestead, had been spared through all the industrial changes.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

The round green hills sentinelling the broad, expansive bosom of the Hudson held her attention by their beauty as the train followed the line of the stream.

From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The dry stalks, sentinelling the seared ground, waved their tattered remnants of unpicked bolls to and fro—summer's battle flags which had not yet fallen.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

Dignity and grace lie in these tall swaying trees sentinelling the way on either side.

From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Albert Rhys Williams