Synonyms of sentinels

sentinels

noun

plural of sentinel

as in guardians

a person or group that watches over someone or something

a lone sentinel kept watch over the fort

Synonyms & Similar Words

• guardians
• guards
• custodians
• keepers
• wardens
• sentries
• watchmen
• pickets
• bodyguards
• warders
• watches
• patrols
• lookouts
• watchers
• observers
• defenders
• minders
• watchdogs
• spotters
• escorts
• convoys
• gatekeepers
• surveillants
• honor guards
• hacks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of sentinels

In the film, robotic sentinels have been constructed to kill all mutants and any humans harboring them. — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026

Here and there, fire, wind, and flood would have broken the forest into a mosaic of old and new, grass and forest, shrubs and sentinels. — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

At the end of one of the castle’s walkways, after a turn or two—by electric cart, bicycle, or on foot—and with the air filled with the scent of pine, rosemary, and jasmine, the sentinels are waiting, carved into the rock where the fort’s cannons were once located. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026

Corkie putting the snake into the tub looks like the sentinels or the wire going into people’s pods. — Nick Newman, IndieWire, 1 June 2026

And for decades, billboards with Smart’s smiling face stood like sentinels along Highway 101, silently urging anyone with information to come forward. — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 8 May 2026

Precedent for this idea comes from Poland, where many cities already use freshwater mussels as living sentinels of water quality, wired with sensors that register when the animals clamp their shells shut in response to pollutants. — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2026

That majestic array of green-gray gneiss sentinels may be the most conceptually elaborate Neolithic monument in Europe. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025

Arizona’s iconic saguaro cactuses seem like immobile sentinels standing watch over the Sonoran desert landscape. — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 10 Nov. 2025