Definitions for sentry-box

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Sentry-Box is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 419 anagrams from letters in sentry-box (-benorstxy).

Definitions for sentry-box

noun

  1. a small structure for sheltering a sentry from bad weather.

Origin of sentry-box

First recorded in 1695-1705

Examples for sentry-box

An ancient watchman was dozing in a sort of sentry box, but he did not wake.

If they can project a spirit from that sentry box, it will be a miracle.

A sentry box or lookout was sometimes put at the top of the roof.

The gray-coated guardian of the peace blinked at him from his sentry box.

In this interim I had got behind a sentry box, in the square, and the soldiers went past me.

Down the path to the sentry box, right about, and back again.

If they unfasten these and bend them out they form the roof of the sentry box (Fig. 83).

It was that of a sentinel in his sentry box, at the gate of the city.

In a corner stood a wooden cabinet that resembled a sentry box on wheels.

He stepped back into the sentry box and spoke through a telephone.

Word Value for sentry-box
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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