How to Use sentry in a Sentence

sentry

noun

• The general placed an armed sentry at the bridge.
• These vessels act as the sentry of a navy’s fleet and keep watch on the open ocean.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2021
• Men like Kevin Jones stand sentry in the back of the church or are sprinkled throughout the pews.
  — Trymaine Lee, NBC News, 12 May 2017
• Hundreds of black cormorant birds stood as if sentries on the rocks east of the cove.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
• Two police SUVs — one on the north side of the street, the other on the south side — stood sentry.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2020
• Now, the state was absent but for the soldiers standing sentry on the edges of the village.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2017
• There, the parking signs (cost $30) stand sentry amind the emptiness.
  — Tom Noie, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2020
• Statues of snarling lion-dogs stand sentry at the stone steps.
  — Gilles Mingasson, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
• The Sentry has been restored, and a cast was made of it to create a second sentry.
  — Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• Out front, two young men stood sentry with rifles in front of a silver sedan.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
• Two taps of the sentry’s cane on the ancient stone floor signals a change of guard, ushering in a clink of spurs and swords.
  — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• Meanwhile, the marble man stands sentry in the courthouse square over the re-subdued black body.
  — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 28 Aug. 2020
• One employee stood sentry near the corner with beer and wine, to check IDs.
  — Matt Day, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• Two took Gonzaga to the bridge, two marched Tabares to the engine room, and two stood sentry outside.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
• Most had fences with barbed wire, guard towers with armed sentries, and few comforts.
  — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
• Rows of wooden seats line an area that used to be the balcony, and at least one wall sconce hangs like an ornate sentry.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 12 Sep. 2019
• At the bow was a diminutive sentry, no older than 18, holding an AK-47.
  — Chet Barfield, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
• Subtle attacks on the pancreas are led by the sentries of the immune system, T cells.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2019
• Stay secure When something goes bump in the night, let your alarm system play sentry.
  — WIRED, 16 May 2017
• There was no sign of the Marine sentry who stands at the entrance when the president is working in the Oval Office.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2017
• Stone lions stand sentry at either side of the stairs leading to the white-colored home, which sits atop a knoll of close to half an acre in the Glenoaks Canyon area.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• The Planter’s movement up the river and away from the harbor was likely to attract the attention of sentries posted among the wharves.
  — Cate Lineberry, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
• Even acting as a remote sentry if there's stuff going on outside the house.
  — Tom Krisher, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2023
• Police and armored vehicles stood sentry on the vast surface the square.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2020
• Ramirez, a switch-hitter, stood right over home plate like a sentry, daring pitchers to try to beat him inside with fastballs.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 10 June 2019
• Could all of them be identified, too, and sentry posts set up that would provide news of their incursions?
  — The Economist, 23 Mar. 2021
• Then the cancer cells cloak themselves in a protective layer of platelets to hide from the patrolling sentries of the immune system.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• On Market Street, doors were closed, white blinds were drawn, and security guards stood sentry.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2017
• Even with the battery removed, there’s a backup battery in the P1 to power its sentry mode, which will alert you if someone tries to steal or tamper with the vehicle.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
• And yet, its 45-foot stark white letters have loomed over Los Angeles for about that long, since before movies were talkies, their century-long sentry one of the few constants in a place roiling with change.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024