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

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

But sentinel landscapes are prioritized for funding through certain grants, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024

Intriguingly, the system being attacked normally works as a sentinel or guard, whose job it is to detect invading viruses.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

Beneath his window six cherry trees stood sentinel around a marble pool, their slender branches bare and brown.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“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

Dogs get more tick bites and are tested more often for vector-borne diseases than people, so they can be sentinels for their owners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025

"We always say these animals are sentinels because they feel first what's going to come to us. It's happening to them, it's going to happen to us."

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2023

Yet when the darkness closed over him, he found himself in the godswood, moving silently beneath green-grey sentinels and gnarled oaks as old as time.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

It was far back from the street and was sentineled on either side by an uncompromising fir tree.

From The Heart's Country by Mary Heaton Vorse

The prison was both civil and military, but was patrolled and sentineled by soldiers.

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

At another point, emerging from a maze of mountains, the locomotive shoots into a plain, forty or fifty miles square, and sentineled on every side by savage peaks.

From John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard

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

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

Nestling in a grove of primeval pines that sentinelled the placid, shining waters of the Don stood a low, wide-eaved cottage.

From The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins

Frigidian and Cardens sentinelled the mouth of the Lough at Moville and Coleraine.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 by Various

Those who sentinelled the gate of the great kraal, Imvungayo, conferred a moment among themselves, and immediately two men were sent to learn the royal pleasure as to the request.

From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford

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

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

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