sentry
/ˈsɛn.tɹi/
noun 5
Collocations
3ADJ.
brave, funny
SENTRY + NOUN
attention, duty, it's, password
PREP.
on
Definitions
noun
1
A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.
2
Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
3
A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
4
A watchtower.
5
An animal like a marmot tasked with alerting the pack to danger.
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Additional sentries are keeping watch for any signs of an ambush.
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The sentry demanded the password from everyone.
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He was a brave sentry.
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The brave sentry thinks it's funny that most Spanish 3rd-person-sentences have six possible ways of being translated to German.
Tatoeba · #79201205
He's on sentry duty.
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The sentry stood to attention.
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