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

Con Edison trucks also blocked nearby roads by entrances at spots where NYPD vehicles would usually stand sentry. — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026

And in lower Manhattan, the old twin towers of the World Trade Center still stand sentry in Macken's miniature Gotham, albeit alongside One World Trade Center and the other gleaming skyscrapers constructed after the 2001 terror attacks. — CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

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

Rhymes for stand sentry

• complementary
• elementary
• entry
• gentry