All 12 Uses of
sentry
in
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- The sentries sit in warm quarters, their sleepy heads propped against their rifles--it's not all milk and honey for them either, lounging on the watchtowers in such cold.†
- "Halt!" shouted a sentry.†
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- It looked now as if the sentries, known to the prisoners as "parrots," were perched in all six watchtowers, but still they weren't letting the column in.†
- Only the six sentries on their watchtowers were visible-and some people bustling around the office.†
- The office was in a log cabin near the sentry house.†
- Well, if he'd fled during the day that was one thing, but if he'd hidden and was simply waiting for the sentries to go off the watchtowers he hadn't a chance.†
- Unless he'd left a trail through the wire the sentries wouldn't be allowed back in camp for at least three days.†
- If the numbers tallied again the sentries would be removed from the watchtowers.†
- Only when the last prisoner had been led off the site and the numbers had been found to agree would they telephone all the towers and relieve the sentries.†
- If the head of the escort had his wits about him he'd put the column on the move right away, for he knew the zeks had nowhere to run to and the sentries would overtake the column.†
- If they were paved, these roads, this would be just the place for the main square of a future city; and then processions would meet here, just as columns of zeks did now as they poured in from every direction, with sentries and guards all about.†
- The head guard walked to the sentry house--he had to get a receipt for the four hundred and sixty-three prisoners.†
Definition:
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(sentry) someone who stands guard