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# sentry

«sentry» in Mova's school dictionary: **A soldier who stands guard at a gate, building or camp to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sentry, sentries)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A soldier who stands guard at a gate, building or camp to check who comes and to watch for danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#m1)

2) (also sentry duty) The job of guarding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and everyday life, sentries guard palaces and army camps; the guards outside Buckingham Palace stand in sentry boxes. In stories, sneaking past a sentry is a classic moment of tension. Phrases: on sentry duty, sentry box, post a sentry, sentry go.

### examples

- A sentry stood at the palace gates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#x1)
- The soldier was on sentry duty all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#x2)
- The guards in London stand in sentry boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#x3)
- The spies crept past the sleeping sentry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#x4)
- The captain posted a sentry at the camp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#x5)
- "Halt! Who goes there?" called the sentry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#x6)
- "You must not shout so," said the sentry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/#x7)

### note

Plural: sentries (y → ies). Similar: sentinel, guard. Do not confuse with "century" (100 years) or "sentence".

### In the corpora

- [The Rat: «They've got sentries posted, and they are all armed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/22/)
- [You must just wait.» (sentries = guards on watch)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/66-willows-ch11-part2-the-wild-wooders-take-toad-hall/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sentry» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sentry/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.