sentinel
/ˈsɛn.tɪ.nəl/ verb C2- To watch over as a guard. · He sentineled the north wall.
- To post a guard for. · He sentineled the north wall with just one man.
He/she/it sentinels · Past sentineled · Past participle sentineled · -ing form sentineling
Verb forms
- Base form
- sentinel
- He/she/it
- sentinels
- Past
- sentineled
- Past participle
- sentineled
- -ing form
- sentineling
From the library
This time you will lay your plans more accurately; we shall get out into the gallery you have described; kill the sentinel who guards it, and make our escape.
“Ah, if there were no sentinel!”
“I have; if it were only possible to place a deaf and blind sentinel in the gallery beyond us.”
At the end of fifteen months the level was finished, and the excavation completed beneath the gallery, and the two workmen could distinctly hear the measured tread of the sentinel as he paced to and fro over their heads.
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