sentry

Example Sentences

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More Peshmerga are dotted around on the hilltops standing sentry – a low-tech early warning system for incoming drones.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 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

It acts as a kind of guardian, Govan mused, like the lions that traditionally sit sentry beside libraries and museums.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 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