Definitions for sentry

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sentry sen·try

Spelling: [sen-tree]

IPA: /ˈsɛn tri/

Sentry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in sentry (enrsty).

Definitions for sentry

noun

1. a soldier stationed at a place to stand guard and prevent the passage of unauthorized persons, watch for fires, etc., especially a sentinel stationed at a pass, gate, opening in a defense work, or the like.
2. a member of a guard or watch.

Origin of sentry

1605-15; short for sentrinel, variant of sentinel

Examples for sentry

The sentry blossomed as the first English paper of the country.

While these were being spoken, outside a sentry had challenged: "Samama!"

That was the first and last time that he ever left me on sentry all night.

I shared the sentiments of the Fatah sentry who allowed me inside the walls of the Muqata in Ramallah.

He looked up at the sentry towers dotting the campus as the bus entered Kirkland.

No less inspiring was the revival of the sentry on the 1st March 1917.

We found that the sentry safe which contained our footage had indeed been under water.

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I said, "Were you not with the officer when he placed me on sentry last night?"

The sentry at the front gate has no mechanism to compel incoming vehicles to stop.