How To Use Sentry In A Sentence

The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.
The sentry defended the gate against sudden attack.
The discipline of the guards is not very good. Sentry duty wearies them, for they must also serve as torturers, interrogators and perform the duties of kidnappers.
Yet, there appeared to be a crowd forming around the sentry on guard there.
The E-3A Sentry aircraft, better known as AWACS, and the smaller, lesser-known TR-1, flew their missions in boring circles or straight lines far behind the fighting front. Red Storm Rising

Doing sentry duty at 2am in the wet and cold. Times, Sunday Times
a sentry station
It's the reverse of birthdays, this laying out outside the meats and cheese, cruets of oil standing sentry at the table and each guest barely able to breathe in the funerary wreaths of citronella haze.
The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.
We escorted them into the camp, passing the guards who had barricaded themselves into the sentry box. Times, Sunday Times
They had some words, -- the officer and the sentry, -- he couldn't tell what, but the officer spoke excited like, and all of a sudden jumped away and started as though to run, and Number 6 "hollered" after him, though Reilly didn't clearly understand what was said. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
`I wouldn't hang about if I was you, mademoiselle ," the sentry said. DISPLACED PERSON
The pressed men looked very sulky and angry, and eyed the shore as if even then they longed to jump overboard and swim for it; but the sentry, with his musket, at the gangway was a strong hint that they would have other dangers besides drowning to contend with should they attempt it. True Blue
As it was my job to lean out and whisper into the sentry's "pearly," I got rather exasperated. Fanny Goes to War
The palace was floodlit, a full-size Royal Standard, usually reserved for state occasions, was flying and guardsmen in bearskins were on sentry duty.
two men stood sentry duty
One morning in the early hours he was on sentry duty and dozed off standing up by the side of the sentry box. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
Black was standing holding the inanimated body of the sentry in his arms. Hornblower And The Hotspur
It may perch on a rock to get a better view, with sentry duty lasting for around an hour. The Sun
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
He walked westward and out of the village by the back way to avoid the Roman sentry on the road.
He dragged himself clear only to walk into a German sentry on the edge of the town and be returned to captivity. Times, Sunday Times
the sentry stayed in his box to avoid the cold
A most important contrivance belonging to a whaler is the crow's-nest, which I may describe as a sentry-box at the mast-head. Peter the Whaler
An elaborate mantelpiece framed the hearth in a dizzying array of swirls and curlicues, and a tall grandfather clock lurked in the corner like a brooding sentry, counting out the seconds with a gloomy tock, tock, tock.
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The sentry made straight for him with a drawn sword.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
The sentry had only to peep over the low wall of the terrace to see these two ashen faces. SNOWLINE
When a sentry position collapsed during a battle with insurgents, he rushed out without body armour under heavy enemy fire to rescue the men. Times, Sunday Times
Martha was a capital cook, and little Annie a sharp sentry; it was J. B.'s great dread that we'd arouse suspicion among the local people - for Americans are the nosiest folk on earth, prying into every newcomer's business, trying to get sight of his furnishings and guess how much money he's got (being neighbourly, they call it), and the arrival of six mysterious stalwarts was enough to set the countryside agog. THE NUMBERS
Stephen, the young stoker, was there, acting the part of sentry: McKinnon told him to join the others on the mess-decks. SAN ANDREAS
I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
Part of my job is sitting on a horse in a sentry box at Whitehall. Times, Sunday Times
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The sentry clamped his mouth tight.
I believe he would have done it for the sake of the cornet; but before I had finished eating, up stepped a sentry escorting a man with my bombardon under his arm. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
I'll have to beg Jim off from sentry duty, he's sick.
The palace was floodlit, a full-size Royal Standard, usually reserved for state occasions, was flying and guardsmen in bearskins were on sentry duty.
Then Kestrel called them all together-boy and man, warrior and outrunner, and sentry and firekeeper. The Dark Queen
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It might be a sentry box. Times, Sunday Times
A quarter of a mile in either direction, looking out along the shallow canyon of the sand-hills, Dag Daughtry could see the sentry-boxes of the guards, themselves armed and more prone to kill than to lay hands on any escaping pest-man, much less persuavively discuss with him the advisability of his return to the prison house. CHAPTER XXI
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Needless to state, the firelocks were all "poised" -- whatever that may be -- and, led by Allen, a rush was made, the sentry overpowered, and soon the gallant "83" were standing back to back on the parade-ground within the fort, their muskets levelled at the two barracks which, filled with sleeping soldiers, faced each other. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
The process was quickly completed and the two technicians entered the transport's passenger area while the sentry unhooked the umbilical pipe from the camp reservoir.
The sentry, who faces a court martial, was not on board. The Sun
The sentry sat hugging his rifle.
We may calculate upon taking the sentry by surprise, as we did in the prison, and on silencing him at once; then we should have time to break up some cartridges, and pour the powder into the keyhole, which is sure to be The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
The sentry challenged the stranger at the gates.
At the top of the staircase they passed through another identity check by an armed sentry. Bomber
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
The sentry would not let her enter.
= _A sentry squad_ is a squad posted in observation at an indicated point. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
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The sentry ducked past lines of hanging blankets and dashed back towards the doorway to raise the alarm. Times, Sunday Times
It teaches you just how long a man can carry a musket in one position without overfatigue, just how hard it is to keep awake on sentry duty after an exhausting day's march. Public Speaking
‘Give us a smile, bonny lass,’ said the young sentry in a sweet Geordie voice as I walked past pretending to be invisible.
The investigator to comes off sentry duty unemployed person's influence in the cities region culture characteristic.
Training was similar to that carried out by the commandos, with emphasis placed on raiding, sentry elimination, ambushing, cross-country night navigation exercises, and target attacks.
Kim stood like a deaf and dumb sentry, never once asking her to stay.
A sentry checked the ID card's authenticity then activated the electronic turnstile.
The officer commanding it stopped the ambassador and the linguister and let the soldiers go on at a round trot toward the great gate, which stood open, the bayonet on the musket of the sentry shining with an errant gleam of light like the sword of fire at the entrance of Paradise. The Frontiersmen
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After only a few steps she saw a sentry, standing not too far away, with his back to her.
`I wouldn't hang about if I was you, mademoiselle ," the sentry said. DISPLACED PERSON
It had crates piled against it on the inside to serve as sentry stands, and makeshift crenellations atop for better protection of the archers that stood watch.
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You will have sentry duty to perform in the evening and duties throughout the day.
He went on through, past the sentry box, along the path, his usual route. THE INNOCENT
He strode out of the candy-striped sentry but waving his free hand. SKORPION'S DEATH
Suddenly, a sentry shouted, but Anders and another man were already striking fire.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
It was pitch dark, so I called the sentry and told him some one was hurt. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
I just pulled the rifle's trigger, and a burst of flechettes hit the sentry right in the forehead.
With his "inquisitive mind" and his "failing for romance," the sentry is a fantasy version of the short-sighted poet, who repeatedly tried to enlist during World War I and once almost succeeded by memorizing the eye chart. Five Best
Looking in the direction of Murtagh's nod, I saw Fergus, sitting on a piling near the entrance to one grogshop, plainly doing sentry duty. Dragonfly in Amber
In the sand beside one of the sentry posts? Times, Sunday Times
And so he stayed like a soldier on sentry duty at the palace. Christianity Today
The sentry called for help and was soon joined by eight soldiers who formed a semicircle and tried to keep the crowd at bay with their loaded muskets and fixed bayonets.
In order to proceed further, you must answer the sentry's challenge by entering the countersign
Taut command wires linked the devices to triggermen in makeshift sentry posts - while other wires fed straight into the mains. The Sun
There should have been a sentry, a guard, or even a sign of some enclave or camp.
There is the site of Far East Railway Station in the city, near the urban district there is boundary monument between China and Russia, you can look Russian sentry over fireguard.
During World War 2, a team of would-be German saboteurs landed in Montauk, and were detected but not apprehended by a coast guard sentry, only to fail in their missions, absorbed into society at large. Michael Vazquez: Warhol Factory Auteur Paul Morrissey Premieres News From Nowhere In-Person at Lincoln Center Tonight
If the teacher is a leader, he must also be a sentry - a heretic to criticize the fools who would cast his pupils back into the dark ignorance they had just escaped.
Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and suggested calling a sentry to evict the fakir. Kim
The sentry was a husky woman who held the rank of corporal. Call to Treason
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In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak. Country diary: St Mellion, Tamar Valley
We reached the naked abutment, and drew ourselves forward on our faces in the shadow of its rails till we could nearly touch the grey skeleton of underhung girders, and see the single sentry leaning against the other abutment, sixty yards across the gulf. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
No blood flowed till February 4, 1898, when a skirmish, set off by the shot of a bullyragged American sentry, led to war. History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)
First, a sentry need no longer be a soldier standing at the entrance to a camp with a pike, or a rifle.
Even the notorious striped sentry box was cliftied from the barracks under cover of glaring headlights.
The sentry was a grenadier; please note the accuracy of detail which should dispel any doubt as to the truth of the story -- the grenadier touch is especially convincing. From a Terrace in Prague
The sentry defended the gate against sudden attack.
Suddenly she turned and vanished from the parapet; and all the time the sentry upon the wall blew out the long note from his brass horn.
Immediately the sentry shouted a challenge to the gunman who responded by raising his weapon to fire at the sentry.
In my zippy Nissan Sentry, I suddenly found myself hyperventilating somewhere around Ewarton.
a bearskin-hatted sentry
'Don't think any one will see it there,' he said, as he cut the candle down a trifle and lit it cautiously with a sputtering sulphur match, part of the spoil from the Turkish sentry. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles
On the day after her arrival, she sent several cases ( "chronic dysentry, hepatitis, and general debility") to hospital, but not one of cholera; neither did any case occur on board during her stay there, at anchor a mile and a half from shore, and constantly communicating with shore, [5] while a considerable number of deaths took place from cholera _in the merchant vessels anchored near shore_. Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or throug
They're going to let me take sentry duty at one of the checkpoints. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
The sentry gave a smart salute and waved us on.
I recalled the sentry's warm blood running over my hands and guiltily, reflexively wiped them on my cloak. Renegade's Magic
The sentry, who faces a court martial, was not on board. The Sun
Now, "says he, leaning close," I'll lay odds the Holnup will come through the garden in the dead watch, around four, lay out the sentry quietly, jemmy the door, then upstairs and good-night Franz-Josef, all hail Crown Prince Rudolf! Watershed
Further above, on a bit of wall still more or less intact, the sentry stood straddle-legged in an open crenel, hands on hips, surveying the river and the valley beyond.
Complete with bearskin, he reaches 9ft and cannot fit into the Royal sentry boxes, meaning he has to be replaced by a shorter soldier when it rains.
Defense includes sentry birds alerting the flock to danger, as well as mobbing, in which several crows surround a potential predator and call out a forceful alarm.
In a loud voice he called the sentry who was pacing below; and in a moment the man appeared in answer to that summons. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
Desmond fancied he saw a slight smile curl the lips of the natives; then the sentry called another peon who stood at hand, and sent him into the palace. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
The officer detailed a man for sentry duty.
I cherished the symbols of dominion so soon to be objects of ridicule or subjects of parody - the plonk of the cricket ball, the stamp of the sentry's boot, the hymns and the silly rituals that spoke of old certitudes.
There was a sentry in a steel helmet at the door.
I'll have to beg Jim off from sentry duty, he's sick.
The sentry defended the gate against sudden attack.
There wasn't a single sentry, and the armies stood like an immense black sea about the castle.
There was the _ping, ping, ping_, of the mosquitoes, and the piteous wailing shriek of the jackals as they hunted in a pack, and there, too, was the monotonous tramp of the sentry, hour after hour. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East
The sentry ducked past lines of hanging blankets and dashed back towards the doorway to raise the alarm. Times, Sunday Times
Panting, he flattened himself against a mold-streaked stone wall, praying it would be just another sentry.
The sentry challenged anyone approaching the tent.
A woman sentry scanned their bodies with a bleeping electronic gun. DESPERADOES
They were stopped at the door by an armed sentry, who refused to allow them to enter. Times, Sunday Times
Rustling grass told him that a sentry was standing not five meters away.
Number One Ward, however, was quite empty except for my friend, Private McPhee, stalking majestically up and down as if on sentry go, wearing a "fit of the blues" several sizes too large for him and an expression which would, I believe, be described by kailyard novelists as "dour. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916
There he go back and forrards, doing what he call his sentry go. Round the Red Lamp
People approaching the gate were challenged by the sentry.
Red buntings skirmish in its spray at the waterside, kingfishers gyrate through the arch of the bridge and a bold heron stands sentry on a rock below.
I wound my puggaree tightly round head and chin, hiding half my face, slipped from my pocket the note which Rose and I had carefully prepared, walked firmly across to the sentry, and demanded to see the guard commander. Fiancée
We put one man on top of the Antelope House to act as a sentry as the others patrolled the grounds the next night.
They even set up a neat military system of two-man sentry duties, to make sure they stayed alert.
They are on sentry duty for two hours at a stretch and can stamp and shout if visitors try to hinder them. The Sun
The sentry defended the gate against sudden attack.
They thought I was doing sentry duty. The Sun
George Anderson was becomingly modest about his imminent Military Cross, for leading a raid on enemy trenches, killing the sentry, and with a corporal carrying back the body of one of his men. Letters from the front to go on show at Christ's College, Cambridge
The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.Sentencedict
On the top was a pole wrapped in straw which could be ignited by the cossack sentry in case of enemy incursion.
On learning of the place of confinement of the woman who had been arrested, he presented himself at the doors, and passed so well for a smart young officer of gendarmery that the sentry saluted and sprang to attention. Dead Souls
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
At the camp's lowest point, a small rock outcropping serves as a storm shelter and sentry post.
Herein two journeymen incessantly chip, while other two journeymen, who face each other, incessantly saw stone; dipping as regularly in and out of their sheltering sentry – boxes, as if they were mechanical figures emblematical of The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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I'll have to beg Jim off from sentry duty, he's sick.
A lone sentry now stands guard, posted by the Northern Alliance.
Vechey's corpse lay in the centre of the tower near a rickety hut, formerly used by guards on sentry duty.
In a lean but highly demanded military this modern soldier must be employed effectively within the operational role and not sentry duty. Times, Sunday Times
The door closed in her face and I heard her feet shuffling as she moved to stand sentry by the door.
The painting at the top, is called "Seafarer's Vigilent Sentry" by Nicky Boehme, and is available as a 250 piece jigsaw puzzle at most Dollar Tree Stores around the country, for just a dollar. Archive 2008-11-01
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
The last sentry in the forest was in the same kind of revetment as the pair had been. Alector's Choice
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
My father's sentry had been much too drunk to notice as I slipped through the gates of the estate.
He spied the jaguar disappear into the trees and then Pockets sent the sentry unit a few paces before him as he followed.
On the approach of the officer there was no challenge, so to find the reason of this the officer climbed up the ladder and found the sentry, who explained he had seen something "right enuff," but thought it was "one of them things they tie ships to" -- in other words a bollard. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
Giant sycamores line the road to Purple Hill, almost sentry-like in their winter bareness.
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.
One young sentry who felt that the ghost was near him panicked and ran to the guardroom for protection.
It was the man who had tried to call for the sentry an hour back, and Pine had him out also; convictism beginning to wonder a little. For the term of his natural life
Behind is a garden about the size of a good drawing-room, with an arbour, which is a complete sentry-box of privet. Our Village
My squad were on sentry duty last night.
He firmly grips either of the sentry's shoulders, eager to disburden himself, although largely on behalf of his men, of the omen.
It was sentry duty now for most of the men of the Black Knights. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
Halfway down, he caught hold of a branch and then scaled his way back to where his sentry post once was.
He crept up on a sentry, given away by the faint flicker of firelight on spired helmet.
He followed the sentry into the restroom, hand reaching into his inside pocket.
The officer detailed a man for sentry duty.
The sentry, who faces a court martial, was not on board. The Sun
If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friend, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

How To Use Sentry In A Sentence

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