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watch over so as to protect
The jewels over which they kept guard were stolen
We must stand sentinel to protect ourselves
How To Use stand sentinel In A Sentence
- Several barriers in his consciousness that normally stand sentinel around his impressions of women become pliable and my image begins to migrate towards that of his mother.
- We must stand sentinel to protect ourselves
- At low elevations, charred trunks today stand sentinel on steep slopes where fire burned very hot, consuming every needle and pine cone.