noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
stand
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Stumpy Martello towers, built to repel Napoleon, stand sentinel on the shoreline.
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Owl Lodge has fine glowing orange owl standing sentinel above the parking lot.
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Forming a concrete tower for temporary installations it stands sentinel opposite the massive front door.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But all was still save the measured tread of the sentinel and the gentle whispers of the genial night breeze.
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In its normal form the gene, called p53, appears to act as a sentinel against excessive cell growth.
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Large dark pines stood like sentinels guarding the sweep of wintry garden.
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Owl Lodge has fine glowing orange owl standing sentinel above the parking lot.
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Stumpy Martello towers, built to repel Napoleon, stand sentinel on the shoreline.
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The sentinels of the media swarmed the fracas.
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Was it some supernatural sentinel of the Scarabae?