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/sˈɛntri/ Listen

noun

Sentry n. (pl. sentires)

(Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

Guard; watch, as by a sentinel. "Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep."

Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.

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Etymology of 'Sentry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sentry" Quotes from Famous Books

... champions there have ever appeared popular tales demonstrating the human qualities of these giants; if Napoleon could conquer empires, tradition has never forgotten that he once pardoned a sentry he found asleep at his post. If Wellington won the battle of Waterloo by military genius, so popular hearsay has urged that he commanded the Guards to charge 'La Grande Armee' in cockney terms. Around the almost sacred ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke

... call of a trumpet echoing across the battlements of the palace denoted the hour for changing the sentry. "Sunset already!" said Von Glauben, walking to the window and throwing back the heavy curtain which partially shaded it, "And yonder is Prince Humphry's yacht on its ...

— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli

... who had been sent to fire them, I wondered, for of them I saw nothing. Well, their journey would be long as they must wade the river. Perhaps they had not yet arrived, or perhaps they had miscarried. At least the fleet seemed very quiet. None were alarmed there and no sentry challenged. ...

— The Ancient Allan • H. Rider Haggard

... full. More straw, my Antoine, to shake over these top rows; then, off we will clatter, rumble, jolt, and rattle, a long row of us, out of the first town-gate, and out at the second town-gate, and past the empty sentry-box, and the little thin square bandbox of a guardhouse, where nobody seems to live: and away for Paris, by the paved road, lying, a straight, straight line, in the long, long avenue of trees. We can neither choose our road, ...

— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens

... scattered huts and tents on the ground where the grass, of a yellowish green, still showed. The front line of defence here was really no front line at all, but was merely held as in open warfare by outposts, sentry ...

— Life in a Tank • Richard Haigh

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