All 16 Uses of
sentinel
in
A Game of Thrones
- Tyrion had heard that elsewhere along the Wall, between the three fortresses, the wildwood had come creeping back over the decades, that there were places where grey-green sentinels and pale white weirwoods had taken root in the shadow of the Wall itself, but Castle Black had a prodigious appetite for firewood, and here the forest was still kept at bay by the axes of the black brothers.†
p. 213.7
- Hodor made his way through the dense stands of oak and ironwood and sentinels, to the still pool beside the heart tree.†
p. 572.4
- No, they were too close, they'd hear him for a certainty, and if they were from Castle Black ... He led the mare off the road, behind a thick stand of grey-green sentinels.†
p. 777.9
- Will threaded their way through a thicket, then started up the slope to the low ridge where he had found his vantage point under a sentinel tree.†
p. 7.1 *
- The great sentinel was right there at the top of the ridge, where Will had known it would be, its lowest branches a bare foot off the ground.†
p. 7.3
- He stood there beside the sentinel, longsword in hand, his cloak billowing behind him as the wind came up, outlined nobly against the stars for all to see.†
p. 7.6
- He went to the tree, a vaulting grey-green sentinel, and began to climb.†
p. 8.2
- His face pressed hard against the trunk of the sentinel.†
p. 8.8
- This was a wood of stubborn sentinel trees armored in grey-green needles, of mighty oaks, of ironwoods as old as the realm itself.†
p. 22.6
- "You stay here," he told him at the base of the sentinel tree near the armory wall.†
p. 78.7
- They finally found him fast asleep in the upper branches of the tallest sentinel in the grove.†
p. 80.2
- The best way was to start from the godswood, shinny up the tall sentinel, and cross over the armory and the guards hall, leaping roof to roof, barefoot so the guards wouldn't hear you overhead.†
p. 81.6
- Littlefinger led him into a tower, down a stair, across a small sunken courtyard, and along a deserted corridor where empty suits of armor stood sentinel along the walls.†
p. 195.9
- The thickets of ironwood and sentinel and oak that had once grown there had been harvested centuries ago, to create a broad swath of open ground through which no enemy could hope to pass unseen.†
p. 213.5
- Theon Greyjoy stood beside a sentinel tree, his bow in hand.†
p. 407.8
- The maester had taught him all the banners: the mailed fist of the Glovers, silver on scarlet; Lady Mormont's black bear; the hideous flayed man that went before Roose Bolton of the Dreadfort; a bull moose for the Hornwoods; a battle-axe for the Cerwyns; three sentinel trees for the Tallharts; and the fearsome sigil of House Umber, a roaring giant in shattered chains.†
p. 569.7
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.