noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sentry box
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
box
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The sentry box was burning on its side from the phosphorus grenade they'd posted into it.
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Or stroll up to one of the distinctive sentry boxes , aligned so defenders could harass would-be invaders with a withering cross-fire.
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Yet once behind the sentry box , guilt and failure lay stacked on the barrack square.
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The club entrance was dark; there was no guard in the sentry box , and the gate was open.
duty
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They even set up a neat military system of two-man sentry duties , to make sure they stayed alert.
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Vechey's corpse lay in the centre of the tower near a rickety hut, formerly used by guards on sentry duty .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A shrill whistle is blown angrily by a shivering soldier, a sentry at the tomb.
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On the top was a pole wrapped in straw which could be ignited by the cossack sentry in case of enemy incursion.
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Or stroll up to one of the distinctive sentry boxes, aligned so defenders could harass would-be invaders with a withering cross-fire.
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Soldiers set up barbed-wire fences, electricians wired up searchlights, carpenters built barracks and sentry boxes on elevated platforms.
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Take sentries - they sit squinting into the dark, waiting to see something move, and naturally their eyes droop.
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The sentry sat hugging his rifle.
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The new sentry on the northern side was a twenty-one-year-old Berliner called Manfred.