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sentinel
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    But he was no longer there; he was standing next to a sand-covered sentinel, on the far side of the camp.  (source)
    sentinel = person who stands guard
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    Papa rubbed his moustache and looked up at the trees standing like sentinels on the edge of the hollow, listening.  (source)
    sentinels = people who stand guard
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    At the sight of the centaur Firenze, who was standing like a sentinel near the water's edge, she gave a start and scurried hastily into a seat a good distance away.  (source)
    sentinel = guard
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    From the outside the buildings were reticent, severe straight lines of red brick or white clapboard, with shutters standing sentinel beside each window, and a few unassuming white cupolas placed here and there on the roofs because they were expected and not pretty, like Pilgrim bonnets.  (source)
    sentinel = guard
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    Lit from beneath by banks of floodlights, the church's two bell towers rose like stalwart sentinels above the building's long body.  (source)
    sentinels = guards
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    It was black or dark like tar, and sentineled to the east and north by tall, dark pines—the serried spears of armed and watchful giants, as they now seemed to him—ogres almost—so gloomy, suspicious and fantastically erratic was his own mood in regard to all this.†  (source)
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    So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans do not repeat the "L" prior to adding the "ED".
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    The round green hills sentineling the broad, expansive bosom of the Hudson held her attention by their beauty as the train followed the line of the stream.†  (source)
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    The ship slid by for what seemed like a mile, a mile of high, black canyon wall, a mile of castle fortification with not a single sentinel to notice us languishing in the moat.  (source)
    sentinel = someone standing guard or looking out for something
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    Sentinels were placed at all the approaches to the farm.  (source)
    Sentinels = guards
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    And as in the case of all the other lakes seen this day, the banks to the very shore line were sentineled with those same green pines—tall, spear-shaped—their arms widespread like one outside his window here in Lycurgus.†  (source)
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    Two dimples sentinelled a platoon of milk-white teeth.†  (source)
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    Trumpkin and the two boys arrived at the dark little stone archway which led into the inside of the Mound, and two sentinel badgers (the white patches on their cheeks were all Edmund could see of them) leaped up with bared teeth and asked them in snarling voices, "Who goes there?"  (source)
    sentinel = standing guard
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    The city had contracted Sentinel to protect public institutions from looters.  (source)
    Sentinel = in this novel, the name of a publishing company
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    You've got the Sentinel guards, guarding our prized institutions.  (source)
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    In fact, I couldn't remember the last time I saw a Sentinel guard standing on duty.  (source)
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    I devoted a blog post to Sentinel, a security firm that had primarily served as a military contractor in Afghanistan and Iraq.  (source)
    Sentinel = in this novel, the name of a publishing company
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    They were guarded by security guards, uniformed in black muscle tees and pants, emblazoned with the Sentinel logo of a guard dog silhouette.  (source)
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    Often the Sentinel guards were the only nonfevered people I would see for days on end; their presence was both eerie and comforting.  (source)
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    One time, walking down Fifty-fourth Street, past my favorite row of town houses, I looked up and glimpsed a Sentinel guard at the top window.  (source)
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    And though Sentinel guards did not wear masks (given the scope of the epidemic, we had begun to understand that the masks were not fever-preventative), wearing a mask meant something.  (source)
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    At that moment, I spotted a rare food cart, the basic kind that sold coffee and pastries, usually frequented by Sentinel guards on their breaks.  (source)
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    I was just wandering around aimlessly, in circles, never venturing farther than midtown, where I never saw anyone, not even the Sentinel guards standing outside the landmarks and cultural institutions.  (source)
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