(1) (In view of recent evidence of the specific requirement of two cations, the complex is accurately described as senary).
Sentry
Definition:
(n.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
(n.) Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sleep Sentry sounded the alarm in 6 of 9 cases of hypoglycemia, giving a nosological sensitivity of 0.67 (95% confidence limits 0.30-0.93).
(2) At the base gates an American sentry, suspicious of the bedraggled Afghan, yelled at him to stop.
(3) In early February 1916, he failed to report for sentry duty in the trenches near Serre on the Western Front.
(4) At Ghazi airbase a Pakistani sentry said he admired the money and resources they brought to the aid effort.
(5) The efficacy and credibility of a skin temperature--skin conductance meter (Teledyne Sleep Sentry) for detecting hypoglycemia was studied during night-time in 22 adult insulin-treated diabetics.
(6) A quarter century later it is said to have blown down in a violent storm, to be stolen by a sentry who only admitted this on his deathbed.
(7) Presidential guard sentry posts were initially empty, but a few guards later appeared and were permitted to take up positions.
(8) All these invisible lines lead to St Paul’s, which stands sentry, keeping watch over the metropolis it has shaped for 300 years, sometimes in highly specific ways.
(9) The Sleep Sentry did not sound the alarm in 35 of 51 cases of non-hypoglycemia, giving a nosological specificity of 0.69 (95% confidence limits 0.54-0.81).
(10) Blood pressure measurement with two automatic devices, Dinamap 845 and Sentry, was compared with the standard mercury sphygmomanometer, by means of a 3-period crossover experiment.
(11) He said: “With more warnings of threats to our citizens in Tunisia following the horrific events of two weeks ago, we’re fighting a new Battle of Britain, once again, against a fascist enemy prepared to kill civilians and opponents alike.” Vital questions about the UK’s involvement in Syria air strikes | Letters from Oliver Miles and Robert Wall Read more The RAF is deploying in missions over Iraq and Syria all of its 10 Reaper drones, eight Tornado fighters, two Sentinel ground surveillance aircraft, two Sentry E-3D airborne surveillance aircraft, an air-to-air refuelling aircraft, and a turboprop Shadow plane equipped with listening devices.
(12) The world on the train goes on at its own pace as it devours the railway miles, silver birch trees standing sentry along the line.
(13) Curfew is at 11pm but there are hardly sentries on patrol in the corridors.
(14) At 3 a.m. the Sleep Sentry sounded the alarm 22 times, of which hypoglycemia was present 6 times giving a diagnostical specificity or diagnostical true positive rate of 0.27 (95% confidence limits 0.11-0.50).
(15) Elba recently completed the third series of Luther, while taking on more significant film roles – including key parts in Pacific Rim , Prometheus and Thor: The Dark World , in which he plays the Asgardian sentry Heimdall.
(16) He said: "I was put on night sentry duty and told by my officers to shoot any porters trying to escape.
(17) "I remember being on sentry duty at a post overlooking the dog kennels, and the guy I was with wouldn't even look at them," one British eyewitness recalls.
(18) A Kenyan soldier clambers up to his sentry post and stares out across vast plains of bush, acacia trees and red dust.
(19) The contents of basic mineral elements (Na, K, Mg, Ca, P, Cl) were investigated in service dogs during their long-term basic training; the dogs belonged to two age categories, and the influence of different work stress (sentry, tracker, watch dogs) on the changes in the contents of these elements was also studied.
(20) He was nervous to leave it, his sentry post, but on this promise he must.