Definition of sentry
plural sentries
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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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The magnificent hall hints at extravagance within: The walls are lined in pleated pistachio silk; bunches of fruit-and-flowers plasterwork tumble from the ceiling; glimmering crystal girandoles stand sentry beside the fireplace.
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Instead of circumscribing corporations within moats, Zscaler employs omnipresent sentries.
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Then the cancer cells cloak themselves in a protective layer of platelets to hide from the patrolling sentries of the immune system.
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Marine sentry towers line the perimeter of the fence line near the Northeast Gate at Guantánamo on March 18, 1999, a time when each towar was armed with two Marines.
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The Norwegians were then able to sneak past sentries and find their way to the heavy water production room, relying on maps of the plant provided by Norwegian resistance workers.
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The supplies and equipment to be taken by the vessel were unloaded at the pier yesterday and placed under a guard of armed sentries.
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Driving south and east out of Kirkenes, travelers leave a prim Scandinavian town where a hotel serves $220 crab dinners and arrive in the Russian town of Nikel, where smoke billows out of a huge nickel plant and a bust of Lenin still stands sentry.
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One employee stood sentry near the corner with beer and wine, to check IDs.
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Origin and Etymology of sentry
perhaps from obsolete sentry sanctuary, watchtower
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Definition of sentry for English Language Learners
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: a soldier who guards a door, gate, etc.
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Definition of sentry for Students
plural sentries
: a person (as a soldier) on duty as a guard
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