sentinel

Profiling sentinel antibodies might eventually support vaccine research, vaccine development and medical care for people who are especially vulnerable to weak immune responses.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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

But sentinel landscapes are prioritized for funding through certain grants, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024

The great mountain abbey stands, a sentinel silhouette, in the distance.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

“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

Dogs get more tick bites and are tested more often for vector-borne diseases than people, so they can be sentinels for their owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025

Monitoring toxic contaminants in these stranded marine animals, which serve as important sentinels of environmental contamination, and whose health may be linked to human health, is vital.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

He had looked up and there they Were, standing like sentinels among the stars on their pillars.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

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

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

Heigh-ho! the world went very well in the springs of old; care was in bondage, and all the many gateways to the heart were bastioned and sentineled.

From Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath

With a couple of bounds he sentineled the doorway, barring the intended exodus.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman

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

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

Under what a tempest of conjectures she looked down and across the great hall to the closed and sentinelled door of that front drawing-room so rife with poignant recollections.

From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball

The island sentinelled the mouth of the logan that deeply indented the shore on the quiet side of the river.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

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

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

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

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

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