Guard at a post

Usage examples of sentinel.

De Batz walked leisurely, thought-fully, taking stock of everything he saw--the gates, the barriers, the positions of sentinels and warders, of everything in fact that might prove a help or a hindrance presently, when the great enterprise would be hazarded.

De Batz nodded to Heron, who escorted him to the outside door of his lodging, and there called loudly to a soldier who was doing sentinel at the further end of the corridor.

They placed sentinels to guard the Bank of France, where the bourgeoisie kept the stolen money.

The news of Tivat and Marion arriving in Lowth at a spot other than near the Sentinel shocked him.

Where the border became that dividing Meath and Leinster two garrisons stood like stone sentinels only two hundred yards apart.

Robot harvesters sweep through the fields, standing like stately alien sentinels in pools of brilliant light, moving alone, unable to detect the panzer as it sweeps across the land.

To the eyes of Sir William Phips and his men the great fortress, crowned with walls, towers, and guns, rising three hundred feet above the water, the white banner flaunting from the chateau and the citadel, the batteries, the sentinels upon the walls--were suggestive of stern work.

Most of those over twenty had already been named: Sentinel, Herald, Dragon, Tragamor, Pursuivant, Elator.

These two girls had been above an hour in the place, happily employed in visiting an opposite milliner, watching the sentinel on guard, and dressing a sallad and cucumber.

Beyond the harbor the blue Caribbean twinkled with all its tropical beauty, but like an ugly sentinel, a symbol of war amid peace, Sargon could see the outline of Diamond Rock which a century ago the British had fortified and held for a short while against the French.

When Podrick asked the name of the inn where they hoped to spend the night, Septon Meribald seized upon the question eagerly, perhaps to take their minds off the grisly sentinels along the roadside.

It was a good two hours of methodical sloughing ahead before he came in sight of the sentinel pine Art had told him about.

He and his people distributed some of their production to the local chieftains and shamans in return for a network of Stilty scouts and sentinels, but the vast bulk of it was shipped out for disposal elsewhere.

I was taking a walk within one hundred yards of the sentinel, when an officer arrived and alighted from his horse, threw the bridle on the neck of his steed, and walked off.

Sentinel, Thurl Hoston, had warned him: Either they would surprise the Shuhr agents, in which case this would seem all too easy or they would be taken captive and subjected to terrible violations.