Plural of sentry

regular plural

The plural of sentry is sentries.

Forms of sentry

Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 213
Yet Asgard is always prey to attacks, so Bifrost is guarded by Heimdall, the most astounding of sentries.2001, Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry Bifrost
One nice boy, whom I leave behind to show the ropes, is scandalously killed by one of their sentries.1930, Frank Percy Crozier, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, J. Cape & H. Smith, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 87. From the entry show the ropes
Harvests at Boisveyrac had been gathered under arms since time out of mind, with sentries posted far up the shore.1904, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 10, in Fort Amity. From the entry time out of mind
Sometimes, with sentries posted, after a banquet with the Olympianly bearded priest, the mayor and the village elders, we would stay the night.2010, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Words of Mercury, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry Olympianly

noun A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
noun Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
noun A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.

What is the plural of sentry?: The plural of sentry is sentries.
Is sentry countable?: Sentry is usually an uncountable noun; its plural is used for kinds or examples of it.

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