Sentry
['sentrɪ] or ['sɛntri]
Definition
(n.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
(n.) Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
Checker: Osbert
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sentinel.[2]. Watch, guard, watch and ward.
Editor: Yvonne
Definition
n. a sentinel: a soldier on guard to observe the approach of danger: a watch-tower.—ns Sen′try-box a box to shelter a sentry; Sen′try-go any active military duty.
Typed by Dave
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a sentry, denotes that you will have kind protectors, and your life will be smoothly conducted.
Typist: Nadine
Examples
- Robert Jordan heard the stream, far down in the rocks, and he saw a faint, thin smoke that rose from the sentry box. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But if we do not deal with them, thou must fire into the sentry boxes and at them if thou seest them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Robert Jordan looked away from the man lying with his head doubled under on the road to the bridge, and the sentry box at the other end. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He passed the sentry where he lay and ran onto the bridge, the packs swinging. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Every inch of the ramparts themselves is beneath the eye of a sentry. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The sentry sat leaning against the wall. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I asked the sentry and he called you. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As I gained my feet I was confronted by the sentry on duty, into the muzzle of whose revolver I found myself looking. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It would be ideal if she would kill him, or if the gypsy would (but he will not) or if the sentry, Agustín, would. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This would be repeated from sentry to sentry until it reached the barracks, when Corporal of the Guard, No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The sentry was standing, his back toward them, at the far end of the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But canst thou be sure of the sentry with thy small _m醧uina_ from here? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I killed one too, and jerked his head toward where the sentry lay hunched over in the road at the end of the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Robert Jordan, looking through the Zeiss 8-power glasses, watched his face as he leaned against the wall of the sentry box drawing on the cigarette. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Robert Jordan looked down through the pines to the sentry box again. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It had been the same with Agustín, who had asked a question about the sentries although he knew the answer. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The pace of the sentries, Xodar said, was very slow, requiring nearly ten minutes to make a single round. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Who deals with the sentries? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There are only two sentries. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But thy two sentries will be coming up now with the snow and you would miss them on the way. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- An asp was smuggled to her past the Roman sentries, concealed in a basket of figs, and by its fangs she died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Will you not have sentries? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At the door Gomez spoke to one of the sentries. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At the gates were stationed sentries with guns. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Haven't you any sentries out? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The sentries of all arms salute her wherever she makes her appearance, and she touches her hat gravely to their salutation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The two sentries were shot down, and so was a corporal who came running to see what was the matter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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