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someone who stands guard- She successfully bluffed her way past the sentry.
sentry = person standing guard
- The sentry was killed without a sound.
- I want one sentry at the gate and one on the ramparts.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Stand here, sentry, with your back to the wall.C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle
- "Halt!" shouted a sentry.Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- His soldiers were very fierce and his lettuce garden was surrounded by a deep ditch and guarded by a thousand sentries day and night.Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- The sentry was standing, his back toward them, at the far end of the bridge.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- There was still the lonely sentry on the bridge, and he had turned and was watching Karl.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- Of course, if he hadn't smashed up the sentries, the Council might have let him off more lightly.Richard Adams -- Watership Down
- Hast no more power to start away from thy crown than any sentry from his post.C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
- There was no sentry on the gangway, no officer of the day to challenge her.Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
- A sentry slept in the Guest House porch, lamps burned in the cruciform of the deserted rooms.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- He had the stores, the road, the village, to himself; and he patrolled a beat like a sentry watching for an Indian attack.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
- As we sped along, he pointed out more sentries on more mountains.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- Slumped like drugged sentries asleep at the gates of Paradise.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- She looked alarmed as he ran past her, round the corner into Dumbledore's corridor, where the lone gargoyle stood sentry.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- If we were that close to the border I did not want to be hailed by a sentry along the road.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- LE BRET (who had gone up to pass a loaf on the end of a lance to the sentry on the rampart): De Guiche!Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
- He mostly slept in the van during the day and then sat up at night, acting as sentry.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- A round stove stands in the middle of the room like a fat sentry on duty.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
sentry = person who was standing guard
sentry = person who stands guard
sentry = someone who stands guard
sentry = someone who stands guard
sentries = people standing guard
sentry = guard
sentry = someone who stands guard
sentries = people standing guard
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