plural sentries
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Examples of sentry in a Sentence
The general placed an armed sentry at the bridge.
a sentry posted to watch for intruders
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Canine work also includes some of the partnerships that have been the backbone of human-dog coevolution, such as guarding, herding, hunting, and acting as sentry.
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Jessica Pierce, TIME, 15 Dec. 2024
About a quarter-mile down the road, two soaring launch towers – one for each launch pad – sit sentry on SpaceX’s launch site as workers mill around.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
The treatment involves isolating a patient’s T cells—the sentries of the immune system that strike invaders—and engineering them in a lab to destroy blood cells called B cells that have become cancerous.
—Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 14 Nov. 2024
Perfectly conical volcanic peaks, dusted in snow, rise like sentries across the horizon.
—Mark Johanson, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024
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Jessica Pierce, TIME, 15 Dec. 2024
About a quarter-mile down the road, two soaring launch towers – one for each launch pad – sit sentry on SpaceX’s launch site as workers mill around.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
The treatment involves isolating a patient’s T cells—the sentries of the immune system that strike invaders—and engineering them in a lab to destroy blood cells called B cells that have become cancerous.
—Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 14 Nov. 2024
Perfectly conical volcanic peaks, dusted in snow, rise like sentries across the horizon.
—Mark Johanson, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Sentry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentry. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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sentry
noun
sen·try
ˈsen-trē 
plural sentries
: guard entry 1 sense 3a
especially
: a soldier standing guard at a point of passage
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