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Definition

someone who stands guard

sentry = person standing guard

sentry = person who was standing guard

I want one sentry at the gate and one on the ramparts.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

sentry = person who stands guard

sentry = someone who stands guard

"Halt!" shouted a sentry.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

sentry = someone who stands guard

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

sentries = people standing guard

The sentry was standing, his back toward them, at the far end of the bridge.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls

sentry = guard

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

sentry = someone who stands guard

Of course, if he hadn't smashed up the sentries, the Council might have let him off more lightly.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

sentries = people standing guard

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

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