sentry box

How to use sentry box in a sentence

• "I can make it any size I please, from a thimble to a sentry-box," said the Goblin.

  Davy and The Goblin | Charles E. Carryl

• Weyburn was attracted by a diminutive white tent, of sentry-box shape, evidently a bather's, quite as evidently a fair bather's.

  Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith

• A few steps from the Osinins house he saw an elegant carriage for two persons standing before the police sentry-box.

  Smoke | Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich

• The anonymous author of the observations on the termites of Ceylon, seems to have discovered a sentry-box in his nests.

  The Book of Curiosities | I. Platts

• Them palanquins are as big as 'ouses, an' uncommon 'ard to sell, as M'Cleary said when ye stole the sentry-box from the Curragh.'

  Soldier Stories | Rudyard Kipling