All 5 Uses
sentry
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Three Cups of Tea
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- At each post, sentries pulled aside the sedan's curtains and studied the large, sweating foreigner in the ridiculous ill-fitting outfit, and each time, Khan reached into the pocket of the leather aviator jacket he wore despite the heat and counted out enough rupees to keep the car moving south.†
Chpt 13sentries = people standing guard
- The sentry had spotted movement at the army post.†
Chpt 13 *
- A teenaged Taliban sentry swung open a green metal gate and flipped through Mortenson's passport suspiciously, while his colleagues waved the barrels of their Kalashnikovs from side to side, covering the entire party.†
Chpt 20
- The sentry in charge, his eyes so thickly chalked with black surma that he squinted out through dark slits, grunted when he came to a page in Mortenson's passport containing several handwritten visas from London's Afghan Embassy.†
Chpt 20
- "This is number-two visa," the sentry said, tearing a page out of Mortenson's passport, instantly rendering the entire document invalid.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(sentry) someone who stands guard
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)