as in guardian
a person or group that watches over someone or something
a lone sentinel kept watch over the fort
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Recent Examples of sentinel
Something similar happens when living in a sentinel.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2025
Recreation areas onboard the sentinels can also function as an underwater laboratory.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2025
An American flag stands like a sentinel on a flagpole beside the Capitol under an ominously gray sky.
—John Blake, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
Poignant, too, is a black and silver gown by the late Azzedine Alaïa that Gabet described as a masterpiece, stood like a sentinel amidst Rennaissance bronzes in the Rotonde Jean Boulogne.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2025
Recreation areas onboard the sentinels can also function as an underwater laboratory.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2025
An American flag stands like a sentinel on a flagpole beside the Capitol under an ominously gray sky.
—John Blake, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
Poignant, too, is a black and silver gown by the late Azzedine Alaïa that Gabet described as a masterpiece, stood like a sentinel amidst Rennaissance bronzes in the Rotonde Jean Boulogne.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentinel
Noun
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Multiple victims were also minors, and at least two were smuggled into the U.S. unaccompanied by a relative or legal guardian, according to the Justice Department.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
12 Apr. 2025
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Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, also stands on the rooftop’s edge, surveying the city like a watchful guardian.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 Apr. 2025
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His termination caught employers and unions off guard — coming weeks after the labor contracts covering some 55,000 unionized grocery workers in California had expired — and threw a wrench in negotiations, said Kathy Finn, president of UFCW Local 770.—
Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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Right guard: The Colts lost their starting right guard, Will Fries, to the Minnesota Vikings in free agency, and his absence raises serious questions about Indianapolis’ plans to replace him.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Related article Young children, a substitute teacher, the head of their school and its custodian.—
John Miller,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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When the Dispatch caught up with Nesbit nearly 13 years after his capture, he had been paroled to St. Paul and was working as a custodian for a local business.—
Nick Woltman,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Cooke County warden responded Saturday to a 911 call after the group of University of North Texas students became stranded on the water, the Parks and Wildlife Department said in a news release.—
Amy McDaniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Apr. 2025
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The warden will also ask the Attorney General's Office if there are any legal blocks to the execution.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Isabella’s a keeper with an assistant-manager title in the near future.—
Eddie Mouradian,
Vulture,
7 Apr. 2025
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Callender was back in his usual role as Inter Miami’s starting keeper on Sunday night against Toronto FC at Chase Stadium.—
Andre Fernandez,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2025
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The snout of a curious whale and the muzzle of a four-legged sentry came oh-so close.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
7 Apr. 2025
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In the early hours of April 21, 1775, gale-force winds whipped across the town square, driving the shivering sentries from their posts to the shelter of their beds.—
Andrew Lawler,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Sentinel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentinel. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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