stand sentry

phrase

: to act as a guard

The company hired a policeman to stand sentry by the door.

Examples of stand sentry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When the three men reach the wildebeest, two stand sentry, while with his knife the third swiftly slices through the skin, muscles, and ligaments of the animal’s hip and pulls away a whole haunch of meat from the corpse. — Literary Hub, 18 Feb. 2026

Set in Maozhuang Village, where real-life 800-year-old Song-dynasty stone statues stand sentry amid vast wheat fields, the film uses arthouse technique to express the inner yearnings of Qing and her mother, who otherwise stay silent about their emotional worlds. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025

Every day showcased the natural beauty of the Great Lakes, from their sandy beaches and lush green coasts to the hundreds of lighthouses that stand sentry along the five lakes’ nearly 11,000 miles of shoreline. — Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 22 Aug. 2025

Guards now stand sentry with a clipboard to block almost everyone from getting inside. — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025

The palace burned down in the 1930s, but, almost 170 years after they were crafted, most of Hawkins’ original sculptures still stand sentry in the park. — Yannic Rack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023

Several times a year, workers from Brownsville In Violence Out stand sentry on two blocks for five days. — Maria Cramer Amir Hamja, New York Times, 4 June 2023

In a snap, he’s been grouped more with Bob Davie and Charlie Weis and Gerry Faust than those guys whose statues stand sentry outside the stadium gates. — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022

State Capitol would stand sentry outside its doors, looking to bend the ears of lawmakers scurrying out of debates or sessions of closed-door deal-making. — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022

Rhymes for stand sentry

• complementary
• elementary
• entry
• gentry