How to Use sentinel in a Sentence

sentinel

noun

• Along the shoulder, ashen wisps of tree trunks stand sentinel like totem poles.
  — Lauren Frayer, latimes.com, 20 June 2017
• As time went on, the colonist mob grew and the mob rioted and attacked a British sentinel.
  — Fox News, 24 Feb. 2020
• On a tower in the Brazilian rain forest, a sentinel scans the horizon for the first signs of fire.
  — Brian K. Sullivan, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2019
• Two enormous palm trees stand sentinel on either end of the pool, bare and brown.
  — Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• The department is in the process of training guardians and sentinels for the upcoming school year.
  — Michael Williams, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2018
• The Hall of Famer’s life-sized statue stands sentinel at the front gates, and a short drive away is a highway bearing his name.
  — Dave Skretta, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2017
• Rugged landscapes split by sharp mountains and dotted with scraggly brush, and the sentinel of the desert.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• The iconic Woodlawn Lake Lighthouse, standing like a sentinel in the middle of the lake.
  — Richard Marini, ExpressNews.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• The nonsentinel males are culled, too (or kept and made into sentinels).
  — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
• The gates are closed, but the icon stays lit up through the night — silently keeping sentinel over the ever-changing land of his people.
  — Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
• In a bed like that, with those towering posts standing like sentinels at the corners, a girl would have room to dream.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• The showstopper: a sentinel that guarded Tut’s Ka, or life force.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• And then, one afternoon, Cynthia and I saw, perched like sentinels in the oaks surrounding the house, hawks.
  — Martha McPhee, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
• The city’s Christmas tree, missing branches and all, stands sentinel over a park that is missing a few things too.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Dec. 2020
• And yet, these satellites are also sentinels of a grim future.
  — Jon Gertner, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2020
• There, a half-mile trail opens to a stunning panorama, with a chimney rock standing sentinel over a lush green V of a canyon.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• The clubhouse of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club stands sentinel over the unique layout which starts and finishes in town.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 18 July 2017
• Inside, an obelisk-like stalagmite stood sentinel atop a mound decked with moss and neon-green ferns.
  — Patrick Scott, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
• Some of them snapped selfies with stone-faced police who stood like sentinels, clad in heavy riot gear.
  — Stacy Meichtry, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
• The rebellion’s first target was a coastal fort, where Tacky’s forces shot a sentinel and seized a store of armaments.
  — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• Among the bungalows, the family’s mint-green Queen Anne stood like an old sentinel.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• In Brazil, monkeys served as sentinels for the latest outbreak of yellow fever.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 24 May 2017
• In the distance, the classic prewar shape of the 11, a 41-story condo tower, is rising like a sentinel on the edge of downtown.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• Pine plantations stand sentinel along two-lane roads where cows graze next to one-room churches.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
• In the distance, the towering rocks of Zion National Park stood like sentinels.
  — James Murren, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• The have been referred to as lakeshore sentinels, offering waypoints on water and markers on land, and come in all shapes and sizes.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
• Like a sentinel, the church has witnessed the evolution of its community from atop a hill.
  — Syra Ortiz- Blanes, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• Testing showed no spread of cancer to Dennis’ blood or sentinel lymph nodes, a first stop for cancer that spreads outside the breast.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• This, we're told, is the sentinel—the meerkat responsible for scanning for predators.
  — Mary Holland, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2018
• Then, after 1940, Cotopaxi went quiet*, and since has been a sentinel looking over the valley were Quito lies.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2015

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