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• I could have sworn I'd never seen anyone smile as broadly and as often as the sentry.2023, SF Benson, chapter 6, in Death and Ruin: All Things Dark and Deadly, Book 4. From the entry gigglemug
• Three castellated (with battlements) towers stand sentry here, with one being particularly large.2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46. From the entry castellated
• From the nearest French sentry, they learned that Grindley was lying drunk in their picket-house.2016, Gareth Glover, The American Sharpe: The Adventures of an American Officer of the 95th Rifles in the Peninsular & Waterloo Campaigns. From the entry picket-house
• The winterwards sentry hooted the alarm, as near to an owl's call as he could.2014, Elizabeth Moon, Deeds of Honor: Paksenarrion World Chronicles. From the entry winterwards
• "I tried to stop her, but she squittered right past." "My apologies , sentry.2012 February 7, Christine Blevins, The Turning of Anne Merrick, Penguin, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry squitter
• This sentry type wooden cubicle was built in the yard; not far from the house.2011 October 27, Helena Martin, “1947 Jacklow, Pomeroon River”, in Walk Wit’ Me …: All Ova Guyana, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay…. From the entry crappo
• Bolan quick-scoped the first sentry and the round took him center mass, even as the guards opened up.2015, Don Pendleton, The Executioner: Perilous Cargo, Harlequin, page 64. From the entry quickscope
• Fog turned ev'ry tree stump into a huddled Kona sentry, but still I was thanksome to Sonmi for the camo.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN. From the entry thanksome
• 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
• Vechey's corpse lay in the center of the tower near a rickety hut, formerly used by guards on sentry duty.1993, Paul Harding, The Nightingale Gallery: Being the First of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry God's teeth
• A small portion of that area near the sentry booth was left open for vehicular movements essential to parking and unparking.1969, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 409 F.2d 1130. From the entry unpark
• 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
• Normally, they would have used the silenced .22 ‘Hush Puppy’ pistol to dispatch both the dog and the sentry, but this was an exercise.2021, Christophe Downes, War Crimes for the Political Elite. From the entry hush puppy
• There, a huge blue heron stands sentry like a statue, eye on the surface, waiting for his next meal to wriggle by.2016, Rae Carson, Like a River Glorious, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry whole
• Taking a closer look at him I realised he wasn't a real sentry but a cut-out sentry, guarding not a real but a cut-out border.2011, Jug Suraiya, “A Career of Pissing People Off”, in JS & the Times of My Life: A Worm's Eye View of Indian Journalism, Chennai…. From the entry cut-out
• 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
• When we used it in our “hush puppy” against a sentry, the target was almost always hit only once, in the head.2009, Thomas H. Keith, SEAL Warrior. From the entry hush puppy
• Fortunately we were on the edge of a shallow shell hole when the sentry caught our movements and Fritz cut loose with the "typewriters."2005, R. Derby Holmes, A Yankee in the Trenches, page 60. From the entry typewriter
• Pleasant weather, but we are kept in all day as a punishment for a misbeholden word spoken to the sentry on guard.1986, United States. Naval History Division, William Bell Clark, William James Morgan, Naval Documents of the American Revolution - Volume…. From the entry misbeholden
• She said the nearest she could recall was when one of King Stephen's sentries got drunk on shipwreck brandy and fell through the murder hole, breaking his leg.2013, Michelle Cooper, A Brief History of Montmaray, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry murder hole
• Though it was preposterous to suppose these carrion-gorged predators would molest us, my guards doubled their sentries; those who slept did so in their corslets, with curtelaxes in their hands.1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 232. From the entry curtle-axe

Meaning of sentry

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

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Questions about sentry in a sentence

How do you use sentry in a sentence?

Sentry is used as a noun. For example: “Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.”

What is a short sentence with sentry?

“Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.”

What does sentry mean?

Sentry means a guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.