SENTINEL


Meaning of SENTINEL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

stand

Stumpy Martello towers, built to repel Napoleon, stand sentinel on the shoreline.

Owl Lodge has fine glowing orange owl standing sentinel above the parking lot.

Forming a concrete tower for temporary installations it stands sentinel opposite the massive front door.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But all was still save the measured tread of the sentinel and the gentle whispers of the genial night breeze.

In its normal form the gene, called p53, appears to act as a sentinel against excessive cell growth.

Large dark pines stood like sentinels guarding the sweep of wintry garden.

Owl Lodge has fine glowing orange owl standing sentinel above the parking lot.

Stumpy Martello towers, built to repel Napoleon, stand sentinel on the shoreline.

The sentinels of the media swarmed the fracas.

Was it some supernatural sentinel of the Scarabae?

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