Sample Sentences for
sentry
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    The sentry was standing, his back toward them, at the far end of the bridge.  (source)
    sentry = guard
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    Of course, if he hadn't smashed up the sentries, the Council might have let him off more lightly.  (source)
    sentries = people standing guard
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    Among the POWs, there was an elaborate sentry system to monitor the Bird's movements.†  (source)
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    Now that the Admiral's five watchdogs have left, though, the kids on sentry duty are getting lax.†  (source)
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    Two robotic sentries stood outside the armory's entrance.†  (source)
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    * * * * * Corny Kelleher closed his long daybook and glanced with his drooping eye at a pine coffinlid sentried in a corner.†  (source)
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    Volkheimer shows their orders to a sentry.†  (source)
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    Slumped like drugged sentries asleep at the gates of Paradise.†  (source)
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    Some young people took up the weapons abandoned by the guards and performed sentry duty.†  (source)
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    She killed her overseer and twenty-three sentries before they caught her.†  (source)
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    Photographs of Daweses and Cabots stood sentry on the night table.†  (source)
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    He shook his head to drive out the angry thoughts, glanced back at the field where five of his own frigates were posted around the rim like monolithic sentries.†  (source)
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    It could be a while before the others—if there were others—realized their sentry was gone.†  (source)
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