sentinel
noun
a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
sentineled
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past participleof sentinel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof sentinel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
sentinelnouna person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
Example Sentences
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As by the elms that line its street, the hills that watch its roofs, Lyme, Conn., is sentineled by artistic good usage, fortressed by aesthetic tradition.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prison was both civil and military, but was patrolled and sentineled by soldiers.
From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath
A fort, mounting eight guns, sentineled the approach to the city from beneath, while the heights above were guarded by a three-banked battery.
From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens
It was far back from the street and was sentineled on either side by an uncompromising fir tree.
From The Heart's Country by Mary Heaton Vorse
Heigh-ho! the world went very well in the springs of old; care was in bondage, and all the many gateways to the heart were bastioned and sentineled.
From Half a Rogue by Harold MacGrath
