"stand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In New York, police officers stood sentry outside many mosques.
- Today, sheriff's deputies stand sentry a few feet from his hospital bed.
- But she was standing sentry, supposed to answer any hails.
- The other guard brings in a chair for their prisoner, and then the two stand sentry inside the door.
- The boss guard ordered two of his people to walk into the woods to stand sentry, and that's where things went wrong.
- The captain of the guard was standing sentry at the main gate, as he did once every moon.
- While digging, one member of the squad was to stand sentry.
- Young Georgia soldiers had stood sentry around the magazines.
- The soldier was standing sentry next to the body.
- He turned to the soldier who had been standing sentry before the tent.
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