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What is a sentry?

What is a sentry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.
  2. (uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.
  3. (nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.
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There wasn't a single sentry, and the armies stood like an immense black sea about the castle.
Relaxed Chinese guards armed with automatic rifles were standing sentry at the 217-meter-long bridge.
He walked westward and out of the village by the back way to avoid the Roman sentry on the road.
They practised raising and lowering the flag, standing sentry and slow-marching into position and away again.
First, a sentry need no longer be a soldier standing at the entrance to a camp with a pike, or a rifle.
Because of security woes, classes began two weeks late this year, with armed guards standing sentry at school gates.

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