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

So far, the state has tracked cases in eight humans, one horse, 10 sentinel chickens, 109 dead birds and 770 mosquito samples.

From Los Angeles Times

“They were like the pyramids, like the Eiffel Tower of Beirut. Every time I passed them, I would think how lucky we were to have this sentinel, these silos, protecting us.”

From Los Angeles Times