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
It began with the Old Senior Surgeon himself, who heard a pair of birds disputing in one of the two trees which sentineled the hospital.
From The Primrose Ring by Sawyer, Ruth
This road is sentineled all the way to camp.
From Then Marched the Brave by Hicks, Anna S.
At another point, emerging from a maze of mountains, the locomotive shoots into a plain, forty or fifty miles square, and sentineled on every side by savage peaks.
From John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park by Stoddard, John L. (John Lawson)
And then as if commanded by a voice, his eyes turned to the dead cottonwood stub which had sentineled the little oasis of trees for many years.
From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver
