sentinel

Example Sentences

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Now, though celebrated as the city’s sentinel, it may yet stand as a monument to the inexorable nature of climate change and the futility of man’s efforts to stop it.

From New York Times

Smell is a sentinel for several medical conditions.

From Scientific American

The incubator has also enlisted an army of citizen-scientists to serve as disease sentinels, collecting basic epidemiological data and alerting IVC to outbreaks that the Venezuelan government’s destitute health agencies now largely ignore.

From Science Magazine

Titans will also get Bastion, a new aspect that lets the melee-obsessed class slam their sentinel shield into the ground to create a Void barricade.

From The Verge

Spain is working on a “sentinel surveillance system” that would estimate cases on the basis of a statistically significant sample rather than counting each infection.

From Washington Post