stand sentry

The great cat pushed into the open to stand sentry.

He turned to the soldier who had been standing sentry before the tent.

While digging, one member of the squad was to stand sentry.

Today, sheriff's deputies stand sentry a few feet from his hospital bed.

The guard in the chair smiled and spoke to the standing sentry.

But she was standing sentry, supposed to answer any hails.

The other guard brings in a chair for their prisoner, and then the two stand sentry inside the door.

The officers stand sentry outside office buildings or serve as bodyguards.

Huck stood sentry and Tom felt his way into the alley.

The captain of the guard was standing sentry at the main gate, as he did once every moon.

The soldier was standing sentry next to the body.

The boss guard ordered two of his people to walk into the woods to stand sentry, and that's where things went wrong.

Rachel checked it out, then closed the door behind her, standing sentry duty.

Young Georgia soldiers had stood sentry around the magazines.

A bronze statue of a woman holding a dove stands sentry.

In New York, police officers stood sentry outside many mosques.

Everyone who wasn't standing sentry duty crowded around them.

At last Juan got tired of standing sentry and became more interested in the trebuchet.

Guards just as carefully bespelled stood sentry at every possible entrance.

Armies of contract gunmen stand sentry outside stores and factories.

You want me to stand sentry out here?"

'You four, you'll stand sentry duty for the next four hours.

The male stands sentry duty on termite mounds and the like.

Others made sure we were safe on the road, standing sentry at railroad tracks and busy intersections.

Two Cohen boys were standing sentry with their backs to him; nobody had seen him yet.