Sentries in a sentence

Mourners at the funeral were watched over by army sentries placed among the trees as speakers vowed never to forgive or forget the way families like the Itamaris were abandoned.

Spinney Wood was guarded by sentries, and rumour soon spread that a scary "Leaf Man" was protecting the woods and stopping people entering.

Take a guided tour of the historic remains — where Roman sentries controlled who entered Londinium — with a museum expert.

Trying to talk his way out of why he was there, the sentries were unconvinced.

In Tijuana, just across the border from San Diego, Calif., more than 5,000 Central American migrants are on waiting lists to seek asylumblocked from international bridges by U.S. border sentries after marching thousands of miles together across Mexico.

It’s up to Terry McGinnis, the new Batman on the block, to foil Harper’s underhanded plans and convince the sentries it’s all just a game.

Peacocks, the painting’s interpretive text explains, were in those days sometimes dragooned as sentries.

School sentries will be allowed to exercise their duties only in response to an armed intruder.

Sentries were stationed at strategic locations around property with specific instructions.

The sentries (watchmen) have been up all night, weary; waiting.

Cultural practices, such as the roda de capoeira, were conducted in remote places with sentries to warn of approaching police.

During service there, he was accidentally wounded by one of his own sentries on 9 October 1919.

Petty Officer Jennifer Kudrick said that if the sentries had fired on the suicide craft "we would have gotten in more trouble for shooting two foreigners than losing seventeen American sailors".

Sentries would challenge those wishing to enter an area or approaching it to supply a password or watchword, and would only allow a person or group to pass if they knew the password.

The prince confides to Horatio and the sentries that from now on he plans to "put an antic disposition on" and forces them to swear to keep his plans for revenge secret.

They were awakened when British sentries discovered them and began firing grapeshot at them from across the river.

With minimal police training, their main role was to increase the strength of police posts, where they functioned as sentries, guards, escorts for government agents, reinforcement to the regular police, and crowd control.