Sentence examples for keeping sentry over from inspiring English sources

Mr. Flores had been keeping sentry over the blocks near his apartment on the Grand Concourse when he decided to be more ambitious about the crime and decay that he said extended well beyond his doorstep.

So I stayed up that night, keeping sentry duty over Nicholas and Karen, and the following morning we drove Sally to UCLA where she was interviewed by a psychologist.

All these invisible lines lead to St Paul's, which stands sentry, keeping watch over the metropolis it has shaped for 300 years, sometimes in highly specific ways.

Keeping watch over the girls.

Having a sentry is good for the group but bad for the sentry, which is doubly harmed: by keeping watch, the sentry has less time to gather food, and by issuing a warning call, it is more likely to be spotted by the predator.

The same is true for a man in another photo, who sits erect in a lawn chair with a shotgun on his lap, like a sentry keeping watch.

A pair of dressmaker's dummies preside over the Jis' workroom, like mute sentries keeping guard.

"Last time I was just keeping things ticking over.

They are serving as the Queen's Guard on select dates until 3 July, keeping watch as sentries at Buckingham Palace, St James's Palace, the Tower of London and Windsor Castle.

SEATTLE — MOUNT RAINIER stands sentry over Seattle.

In Nine West, fully-clothed mannequins stand sentry over cases of knocked-over black shoes.