stand sentinel

On many rooftops, men stood sentinel with weapons in their hands.

In places, soldiers stand sentinel every 50 yards, while the rivers can run cold and fast.

Always, she kept trees between herself and the meadow over which the hunting stand stood sentinel.

The dark house still stood, and the wall stood sentinel in between.

Or from the cypress trees that stood sentinel outside the park gates?

Commissioned during the chief’s lifetime, it would have stood sentinel over his skull after death.

Two of us would stand sentinel while the other two were swimming.

When the Telegraph visited in the past week armed troops stood sentinel outside a central hospital.

Others are shaped like huge eggbeaters standing sentinel over the valley below.

Guards and the crown jewels they had stood sentinel over for ages.

As to whether these were kept behind gates with guard dogs standing sentinel at each fender, the report did not say.

A few rabbits stand sentinel under the pine trees.

One hundred fifty fire trucks stood sentinel on the narrow winding streets.

A huge oak stood sentinel over the empty grave.

On the hill overlooking the harbor entrance, a huge French fort stood sentinel.

Our last stop was the personal-hygiene aisle, where bright bottles stood sentinel.

Two elephants draped in the party colors stood sentinel.

A stuffed dummy in a faded old robe stood sentinel near the door.

I take the significance of this to be that the one Rider who had stood sentinel under the trees went to fetch the other two.

A solitary cottonwood that had already shed its leaves stood sentinel at one end.

America still stands sentinel from across the seas.

Ever since, it has stood sentinel in his living room, like a stately and timeless welcome mat.

Smaller spires stood sentinel around the outskirts of the paving.

Now by one firm thrust the hand planted the rod into the sand, leaving it to stand sentinel between the two parties.

"What they're doing is a crime," he said, glaring at the officers who stood sentinel at the entrance.