Thesaurus results for 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

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Recent Examples of sentinels 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 The satellite, Space Weather Follow-On L1 (SWFO-L1), is launching just in time, as scientists warn our aging fleet of solar sentinels is reaching the end of its life. —

Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentinels

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Robotic grid guardians Power utilities in southwestern China are using robotic snakes to inspect power lines, showcasing a new approach to infrastructure monitoring in environments where drones face limitations.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026
In places where the program is active, parents and legal guardians who are verified riders can create accounts for teens.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026