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sentry duty

NOUN
  1. the duty of serving as a sentry
    he was on guard that night

How To Use sentry duty In A Sentence

  • The discipline of the guards is not very good. Sentry duty wearies them, for they must also serve as torturers, interrogators and perform the duties of kidnappers.
  • Doing sentry duty at 2am in the wet and cold. Times, Sunday Times
  • The palace was floodlit, a full-size Royal Standard, usually reserved for state occasions, was flying and guardsmen in bearskins were on sentry duty.
  • two men stood sentry duty
  • One morning in the early hours he was on sentry duty and dozed off standing up by the side of the sentry box. Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
  • It may perch on a rock to get a better view, with sentry duty lasting for around an hour. The Sun
  • I'll have to beg Jim off from sentry duty, he's sick.
  • The palace was floodlit, a full-size Royal Standard, usually reserved for state occasions, was flying and guardsmen in bearskins were on sentry duty.
  • It teaches you just how long a man can carry a musket in one position without overfatigue, just how hard it is to keep awake on sentry duty after an exhausting day's march. Public Speaking
  • The investigator to comes off sentry duty unemployed person's influence in the cities region culture characteristic.
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