| 1. | Hindley stands sentinel with a knife and loaded pistol.. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 2. | A sentinel isle of dreadful thirst. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | A hundred such questions struggled together in my mind as I watched that vast sentinel shape. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 4. | The sentinel opened the door it was a new face. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 5. | The black figure of a sentinel stood on the bridge. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not think that any burglar could have done. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | The new sentinel commenced his walk in the corridor. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 8. | Behind the sentinel was a staircase with twenty steps. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 9. | Something stood sentinel within her and forbade her every joy. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 10. | themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outsid. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | That the fix'd sentinels almost receiv. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | "When an officer is making his round, sentinels don't as. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 13. | What do you see--Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 14. | It was a few minutes past nine that night when these three sentinels were joined by four other Martians, each carrying a thick black tube. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 15. | As on the previous evening, the sentinels had come in but this time all had come. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 16. | Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment as Gavroche. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 17. | In the country of the Haimavatas adventurous citizens bribe the sentinels and enter the harem. - from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana |
| 18. | They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |