sentry duty


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Noun1.sentry duty - the duty of serving as a sentrysentry duty - the duty of serving as a sentry; "he was on guard that night"
assignment, duty assignment - a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty"
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sentry duty

n to be on sentry dutyessere di sentinella
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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At the front door another soldier was stationed doing sentry duty. He stood on one side, however, and allowed Granet to ring the bell.
Charles who hat on head and both hands rammed deep into his overcoat pockets paced up and down as though on sentry duty there.
"What the devil?" he cried suddenly and in impatience deserting his sentry duty, he, too, went down, hurrying and thumping with his heavy boots on the stairs.
* Guardsman Jamie Shadrake, of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, who was killed in Afghanistan while on sentry duty on Friday
Alarmed by the shots West Bengal state armed police constable Sanjay Bar, who was on sentry duty at the gates, rushed in.
The Telegraph reported three months ago how he had made history as the first amputee to do sentry duty at the Tower of London.
In The Ladbroke at Ascot the gelding put in a storming run to finish second behind Sentry Duty, with Songe back in third and Numide fourth.
Binocular is part of a strong hand for Henderson, with stablemates Afsoun, Punjabi, Sentry Duty and Aigle D'Or also entered.
Binocular (evens) kicked off Hendo's hat-trick followed by 3-1 chance Punchestowns and capped by 12-1 shot Sentry Duty.
Sentry Duty had been given just one outing over hurdles since arriving from France but ran away with the betdirect.com Stakes by two-and-a-half lengths, making light of his 14-1 starting price.
Kingsman Hancock, from the 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, was hit while on sentry duty at the coalition forces' base in Basra.
While on sentry duty shortly before dawn on May 14, 1918, Private Johnson and Needham Roberts, another 369th soldier, were in a trench when a raiding party of about 20 German soldiers tossed a grenade at them.