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Recent Examples of sentry Everything nearly goes awry when two sentries, noting how suspicious the horse is, set it on fire. Eric Goldman, TVLine, 24 July 2024 But everyone inside is saved when the sentries’ superior interrupts them, insisting the horse is a gift from a losing army who want to pay tribute to their great battle skills. Eric Goldman, TVLine, 24 July 2024 On the other side of a tidal creek, a black mangrove stood like a sentry. Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024 What happened: After crossing Juno Beach, Doohan shot two German snipers in the French village of Graye-sur-Mer and was shot at least six times – not by a German, but by a nervous Canadian sentry – at about 11:30 that evening. George Petras, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for sentry 
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Noun
  • Khaleel Sayyed and Walter Bowe, X’s chief guards at the time, would corroborate that statement, as they were both arrested and detained on bogus charges in the days leading up to X’s murder.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The supervisor gathered the employees up and was going to take shelter at a guard shack outside the warehouse but could not due to flying debris and sheet metal.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In the older strata, the animals were preserved in three dimensions, often in sleeping positions or in nests, or as a guardian of nests, a predator attacking a mammal, or even dinos locked in a fight.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • In these accounts parents act as guardians and the children are the beneficiaries until the child reaches the age of majority (usually 18, but sometimes 21) in their state.
    Stephanie Dhue,Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Third-party custodians are a growing business in Bitcoin, and these third parties manage your keys for you.
    Korok Ray, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Ultimately, a federal system that endows states with substantial authority can act as a powerful custodian of democracy, one that goes well beyond the mere involvement of state officials in the electoral system.
    Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The accused include a nurse, a journalist, a prison warden, a local councillor, a soldier, lorry drivers and farm workers.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK, theweek, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Well, the wardens don’t have power beyond what the law says, right?
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Seems dolphins are one of the major biological sentinels of our plastic pollution.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
  • But it’s had many lives: a residence for noble families, a Nazarene college, a sentinel of resilience that resisted Napoleonic invasions and endured the dark days of Nazi rule.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • D’Onta Foreman had a 38-yard run on the second play of the drive, and Sam Darnold scored on an option keeper.
    Dave Birkett, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Egan’s 1-yard touchdown run on a fourth-down keeper pulled the Chargers within 28-26 with 4:57 left in the third quarter.
    Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2022

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“Sentry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentry. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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