All 7 Uses
sentry
in
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene by Greene
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- He looked down the carpet of shadow: a sentry sat on an empty crate asleep beside his rifle.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Outside the sentry could be heard presenting arms.†
Chpt 1.2
- Everything now seemed irrevocable; the sentry passed back and forth outside the door, and in the courtyard among the hammocks the ceaseless murmur of sleep went on.†
Chpt 2.2
- The lieutenant looked away, out of the door where the sentry slouched to and fro.†
Chpt 2.2
- 'Mother of God,' the lieutenant said, 'can I never teach you ...V He took two steps towards the sentry and turned, 'Search him.†
Chpt 2.2
- He went outside and suddenly raising his open hand he struck the sentry on the ear.†
Chpt 2.2
- So he waited another hour on the bench outside the jefe's door, watching the sentry move lackadaisically to and fro in the hot sun.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(sentry) someone who stands guard
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)