All 4 Uses of
sentinel
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Sentinels with bayonets stood on the landings of the fire-stairways.†
Chpt 3.8 *
- The corridors were deserted except for armed sentinels posted at the turns.†
Chpt 3.8
- He observed, as he came closer, that something out of the ordinary was going on at Project X, The barbed-wire fence was broken, and no sentinels met him at the gate.†
Chpt 3.9
- On the roof of a structure above the gate, he saw, as he came closer, the slim silhouette of a man who held a gun in each hand and, from behind the protection of a chimney, kept firing at intervals down into the mob, firing swiftly and, it seemed, in two directions at once, like a sentinel protecting the approaches to the gate.†
Chpt 3.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(sentinel) a person who stands guard or looks out for something
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, sentinel can be used as a verb meaning to stand guard, or provide or post a guard; or to look out for something.
As a proper noun, Sentinel is sometimes used in the name of a newspaper to indicate that the newspaper is looking out for news the public would want.