Sentence examples for standing sentry from inspiring English sources

Off to the side, I spotted Huma Abedin, her longtime aide and confidant, standing sentry.

Standing sentry near the door, a stylized plaster palm soars toward the ceiling.

Standing sentry was a hawk with his eye on that appetizing afterbirth.

In "Mimas, Lune de Saturne" (1981), she simulated masturbation, with a human skeleton standing sentry.

In the way of a heron standing sentry, I let nature reassert itself.

Near midnight, Mr. Zurufi held court at a cafe, his team of bodyguards standing sentry at the door, frisking patrons.

Castello di Montegridolfo, Emilia Romagna A lonely castle perched high on a peak overlooking a softly undulating landscape, the odd cypress standing sentry-like on a distant hilltop: it looks like Tuscany, it feels like Tuscany - but where are the tourists?

Instead of the usual boy who received guests for treatments, she saw three men dressed in white, standing like sentries.

Worth National Cemetery exactly one week before we celebrate the 4th of July holiday, we passed hundreds of U.S. flags standing like sentries and waving in metaphoric salute to honor my father and other veterans laid to their rest while supporting us in our time of grief.

At the top of the steps, wearing a white linen day suit and standing like the sentry to Oz, was John Huston.

The sharks followed her as she went through an averagely un/happy suburban childhood – hovering above her in the street, looming outside the bedroom window, staring at her through a rear-view mirror – until their presence became almost comforting, like a sentry standing guard against other, less nameable fears.