How to Use stand sentry in a Sentence

stand sentry

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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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