sentinel

Example Sentences

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Ahead of our return to the city, we drive back up the ridge, back through Burguete, the inn still shuttered, and up to Roncesvalles, where the old monastery looms like a sentinel over the pass.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

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

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

The sentinel landscapes program was established in 2013 as a partnership of the departments of Agriculture, Defense and the Interior.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 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

This was a wood of stubborn sentinel trees armored in grey-green needles, of mighty oaks, of ironwoods as old as the realm itself.

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