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
And that no sordidness might pass therein He sentinelled the door with savage jinn, Invisible and with the flaming powers Of Sheol in their guarding scimitars.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
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 land now also began to dip, and fifteen minutes' ride brought them to a low-lying region of swamp, sentinelled with dismal larches.
From Annette, the Metis Spy by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
