sentinel

I wanted to ask him if he’d sign this book, which had now begun to write its own mythology as it sat sentinel over his other signed books on the shelf behind me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 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

Beal noted one of the sentinel signs that a farm has been infected is dead barn cats that have drunk the infected, raw milk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024

As I went into the drawing-room I glanced back, over my shoulder, and I saw Mrs. Danvers still standing there at the head of the stairs, like a black sentinel.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The birds feed on insects living on rhinos and can also act as sentinels - calling to warn their hosts when danger approaches.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“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

"Since dolphins are considered environmental sentinels for toxic exposures in marine environments," Dr. David Davis at the Miller School of Medicine explains, "there are concerns about human health issues associated with cyanobacterial blooms."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2025

A warm fog hung in the air, turning the trees into sentinels, tall soldiers shrouded in cloaks of gloom.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Poor lad! he was coming down the pass last night, not knowing that it was sentineled by the enemy.

From Then Marched the Brave by Anna S. Hicks

Consequently the road, sentineled by linden trees, crosses a rich plain, and is more than a mile from the sea when it reaches the city of Julius Caesar.

From Riviera Towns by Herbert Adams Gibbons

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

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

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

One side was sentinelled by sun-flowers and another side by transplanted laurel and rhododendron shrubs, and hidden in the plant-and-flower-bordered squares were the vegetables that won her step-mother's tolerance of Hale's plan.

From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox

"I come," she said, "to save your life, which is else in great peril—if you answer me, speak as low as you can, for they have sentinelled your door with armed men."

From The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott

He found the old man in a state very difficult to be described, for he had only just returned to the drawing-room from the strongly sentinelled chamber of his daughter.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

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 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