Sentry
noun
A person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person formally assigned to protect a place, by looking out for danger or trouble.
The soldier was assigned the night shift as a sentry at the military base.
Often appears as...
- stand as sentry
- sentry duty
noun
A person who keeps watch, especially a soldier or other person formally assigned to protect a place, by looking out for danger or trouble.
The soldier was assigned the night shift as a sentry at the military base.
Often appears as...
- stand as sentry
- sentry duty
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Often used in military or security settings to describe someone on duty for observing and reporting.
During the exercise, two cadets were assigned as sentries to monitor the perimeter.
Pro Tip 2/3Vigilance Required
Implies a need for alertness and constant attention to the surroundings for possible threats.
The role of the sentry is crucial; they must remain vigilant throughout their watch.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Military
Can also refer to anyone assigned to keep watch in non-military contexts, like a guard at a museum.
The museum's sentry kept a keen eye on visitors to prevent any art theft.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Often used in military or security settings to describe someone on duty for observing and reporting.
During the exercise, two cadets were assigned as sentries to monitor the perimeter.
Pro Tip 2/3Vigilance Required
Implies a need for alertness and constant attention to the surroundings for possible threats.
The role of the sentry is crucial; they must remain vigilant throughout their watch.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Military
Can also refer to anyone assigned to keep watch in non-military contexts, like a guard at a museum.
The museum's sentry kept a keen eye on visitors to prevent any art theft.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Often used in military or security settings to describe someone on duty for observing and reporting.
During the exercise, two cadets were assigned as sentries to monitor the perimeter.
Pro Tip 2/3Vigilance Required
Implies a need for alertness and constant attention to the surroundings for possible threats.
The role of the sentry is crucial; they must remain vigilant throughout their watch.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Military
Can also refer to anyone assigned to keep watch in non-military contexts, like a guard at a museum.
The museum's sentry kept a keen eye on visitors to prevent any art theft.
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Why I love a country...
I still remember the barbed wire fence that confined me. I remember the tall sentry tower with the machine guns pointed at us. I remember the searchlight that followed me when I made the night runs
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5 Amazing Animal...
and sometimes it's good to have someone watching your back being a sentry is a risky business as they are easy targets for predators but with young pups to protect they take
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Why I love a country...
I still remember the barbed wire fence that confined me. I remember the tall sentry tower with the machine guns pointed at us. I remember the searchlight that followed me when I made the night runs
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5 Amazing Animal...
and sometimes it's good to have someone watching your back being a sentry is a risky business as they are easy targets for predators but with young pups to protect they take
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Quote examples
James Wolcott
American Critic
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
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Woody Harrelson
American Actor
I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.
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Susan Vreeland
American Author
Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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Jody Williams
American Activist
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
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Jim Mattis
American Public Servant
As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?
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James Wolcott
American Critic
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.
Quote examples
Woody Harrelson
American Actor
I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her.
Quote examples
Susan Vreeland
American Author
Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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Jody Williams
American Activist
The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims. In common parlance, it is the perfect soldier, the 'eternal sentry.' The war ends, the landmine goes on killing.
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Jim Mattis
American Public Servant
As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?
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