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  • I want one sentry at the gate and one on the ramparts.  (source)
    sentry = person who stands guard
  • The sentry was standing, his back toward them, at the far end of the bridge.  (source)
    sentry = guard
  • Now that the Admiral's five watchdogs have left, though, the kids on sentry duty are getting lax.†  (source)
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  • Among the POWs, there was an elaborate sentry system to monitor the Bird's movements.†  (source)
  • The two tall pines stood shivering like sentries, water cascading down branch by branch.†  (source)
    sentries = people standing guard
  • When heaven's jewel had fled o'er far fields, that fierce sprite came, night-foe savage, to seek us out where safe and sound we sentried the hall.†  (source)
    sentried = guarded
  • The man won't be expecting a sentry: in his deal with the High Priestess, he specified no witnesses.†  (source)
  • He wanted sentries posted all around the palace, day and night.†  (source)
    sentries = people standing guard
  • * * * * * Corny Kelleher closed his long daybook and glanced with his drooping eye at a pine coffinlid sentried in a corner.†  (source)
    sentried = guarded
  • My father holds the door open on the twentieth floor and stands like a sentry as every Abnegation walks past him.†  (source)
  • Two robotic sentries stood outside the armory's entrance.†  (source)
    sentries = people standing guard
  • I sucked at it, of course, but my sucking was useful to him: It made it easier for him to die beautifully, to jump in front of a sniper's bullet and sacrifice himself for me, or else to kill a sentry who was just about to shoot me.†  (source)
  • They walked carefully back across the entrance hall and up the marble staircase, holding their breath as they passed corridors where watchful sentries were walking.†  (source)
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