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
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 James Oliver Curwood
How the Southern Portal of the Highlands stands sentineled by Stony Point, a humble crag converted by the courage of Anthony Wayne into a mountain peak of Liberty.
From The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce
He jumped off, hitched Red Squirrel to one of the posts that sentineled the curbstone, and passed quietly round into the "shady turn."
From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
This road is sentineled all the way to camp.
From Then Marched the Brave by Anna S. Hicks
