sentinel

The mean rescue sentinel did not think so.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

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

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

Beal noted one of the sentinel signs that a farm has been infected is dead barn cats that have drunk the infected, raw milk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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

A shuffling step announced the old woman herself, who entered the room with the white mastiff like a sentinel at her side.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

“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

In the first second before her awareness could flow into her other sentinels, it was as though fire scorched away her sight in pieces, leaving ragged holes rimmed in cinders.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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 is nature's grand police, vigilant and faithful, sentineled in the soul, guarding against violence to peace and life.

From John Brown An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College by Frederick Douglass

With a couple of bounds he sentineled the doorway, barring the intended exodus.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman

Poor lad! he was coming down the pass last night, not knowing that it was sentineled by the enemy.

From Then Marched the Brave by Anna S. Hicks

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

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

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

Here and there, these openings are sentinelled, as it were, by little fairy islets, green as emerald, and waving with palms.

From Omoo by Herman Melville

The tent was sentinelled, and Dujardin was alone with the past.

From White Lies by Charles Reade

Everywhere strict watchfulness is maintained, while the threatened points are doubly sentinelled.

From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Shirley C. Hughson

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

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 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