sentinel
noun
a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.
sentinelled
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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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He was stationed at Fort Knox, where he sentinelled the country’s gold reserves.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017
Williamstown, sentinelled with maple trees, smiles at the Berkshires.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were the guards placed upon her husband, who occupied the apartment which they sentinelled.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by John Mackay Wilson
One side was sentinelled by sun-flowers and another side by transplanted laurel and rhododendron shrubs, and hidden in the plant-and-flower-bordered squares were the vegetables that won her step-mother's tolerance of Hale's plan.
From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox
The tent was sentinelled, and Dujardin was alone with the past.
From White Lies by Charles Reade
