plural sentries
Examples of sentry in a Sentence
The general placed an armed sentry at the bridge.
a sentry posted to watch for intruders
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Kochab is the brighter of the two outer stars in the bowl of the Little Dipper (the other being Pherkad), which seem to march in a circle like sentries around Polaris, the North Star.
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 14 Dec. 2025
The incident occurred while one of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIB) was returning from its sentry duties off Bentinck Island.
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The pair later designed pieces for various regiments of the Royal Guards, the sentries protecting Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace in London.
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For Hiba Mahmoud al-Ashqar, a social studies teacher at a girls’ school in Homs that is guarded by an armed sentry, the deeper loss is the erosion of critical thinking.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2025
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Joe Rao, Space.com, 14 Dec. 2025
The incident occurred while one of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIB) was returning from its sentry duties off Bentinck Island.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 Dec. 2025
The pair later designed pieces for various regiments of the Royal Guards, the sentries protecting Buckingham Palace and St James’s Palace in London.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
For Hiba Mahmoud al-Ashqar, a social studies teacher at a girls’ school in Homs that is guarded by an armed sentry, the deeper loss is the erosion of critical thinking.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Sentry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentry. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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sentry
noun
sen·try
ˈsen-trē 
plural sentries
: guard entry 1 sense 3a
especially
: a soldier standing guard at a point of passage
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