sentinel

Ahead of our return to the city, we drive back up the ridge, back through Burguete, the inn still shuttered, and up to Roncesvalles, where the old monastery looms like a sentinel over the pass.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

The Hollywood sign stands sentinel above Los Angeles, watching as embers dance through the January night like wayward stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025

If musical theater had a canine sentinel, it might well be a standard French poodle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024

The church stood empty like a silent sentinel over a small cemetery next to it.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

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.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The birds feed on insects living on rhinos and can also act as sentinels - calling to warn their hosts when danger approaches.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“We stand on the walls, sentinels of the inner sanctum, against the assault of AI slop. The Ontology is based firmly in reality—there is, here, a dialectic between ground truth, tribal knowledge, and enhancements.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

“We stand on the walls, sentinels of the inner sanctum, against the assault of AI slop,” Karp said in his letter to shareholders.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

A few rise above head-height, the most energetic sentinels of regeneration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

He darted forward, through the shadows, onto the bare knoll at the top of the ridge, where large boulders stood like sentinels, guarding the mountains.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

As by the elms that line its street, the hills that watch its roofs, Lyme, Conn., is sentineled by artistic good usage, fortressed by aesthetic tradition.

From Time Magazine Archive

He saw that the walls were poorly sentineled, but they were sufficiently high to render an attempt to scale them foredoomed to failure.

From The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A fort, mounting eight guns, sentineled the approach to the city from beneath, while the heights above were guarded by a three-banked battery.

From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

Eight Corinthian pillars sentineled it, resting on a marble base which seemed to spring up out of the flag-stones themselves, and towering to the projecting entablature above.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

This road is sentineled all the way to camp.

From Then Marched the Brave by Anna S. Hicks

He was stationed at Fort Knox, where he sentinelled the country’s gold reserves.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017

Williamstown, sentinelled with maple trees, smiles at the Berkshires.

From Time Magazine Archive

One side was sentinelled by sun-flowers and another side by transplanted laurel and rhododendron shrubs, and hidden in the plant-and-flower-bordered squares were the vegetables that won her step-mother's tolerance of Hale's plan.

From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox

Accompanied by Laurent and a guarding municipal, they made the ascent of the closely sentinelled stairs.

From When a Cobbler Ruled a King by Augusta Huiell Seaman

At the foot of the hill, where two lines of maples sentinelled the way, an electric lamp glowed high among the embowering branches, and made most wonderful shadow-etchings on the road below it.

From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

The two great poplar-trees, sentineling what had once been the gate of the old Gordon homestead, had been spared through all the industrial changes.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

The dry stalks, sentinelling the seared ground, waved their tattered remnants of unpicked bolls to and fro—summer's battle flags which had not yet fallen.

From The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

The round green hills sentinelling the broad, expansive bosom of the Hudson held her attention by their beauty as the train followed the line of the stream.

From Sister Carrie: a Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Dignity and grace lie in these tall swaying trees sentinelling the way on either side.

From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Albert Rhys Williams