sentry
Example Sentences
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More Peshmerga are dotted around on the hilltops standing sentry – a low-tech early warning system for incoming drones.
From BBC
A military sentry stands guard at the gate.
From Literature
Instead, she said the agreement was around an "Arctic sentry" allowing Nato countries to work together on a "shared threat" with "different Arctic countries coming together, supported by other Nato countries".
From BBC
We set skeletons on either side of the mirror to stand sentry.
From Literature
An outpost for 30 soldiers with a couple of sentry points and barracks will burn through about 13 gallons of fuel a day.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
