How to Use keep watch in a Sentence

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• The group is on contract with the city to keep watch over the area.
  — Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• The group has been on a contract with the city to keep watch over the area.
  — Star Tribune Staff, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
• The best way to know for certain is to keep watch and try to find the creature at work.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• And those along the western Gulf Coast will need to keep watch on the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 17 Aug. 2023
• Anne is staying back, no longer with a husband to keep watch over through race day.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2021
• The 17-year-old girl appeared in the footage to keep watch as the other two teens carried out the attack, the affidavit states.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2021
• Anthony Salas, a DPS special agent, later climbed in and perched on the truck’s roof to keep watch.
  — Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2023
• Others keep watch from their cars or patrol the nearby parks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Looking for more goodies to help keep watch on your little ones?
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2022
• Some neighbors keep watch in front of the Si family’s driveway.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
• Tight ends like to stick together, so keep watch of DeGraaf and Swanson for the future.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Lib Wright, a nurse and veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2022
• Bentley, the family’s 13-year-old Yorkie, loves to keep watch out the living room windows.
  — Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 23 Aug. 2023
• Aidan swears that his dad has taken to inhabiting blue jays to keep watch over him.
  — Byreuters, ABC News, 7 May 2022
• The job of journalists is to keep watch, to investigate and to report.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
• Ever dreamed of having a tiny snail keep watch over your simmering stew?
  — Kat Thompson, Bon Appétit, 19 Oct. 2023
• After the rest of the seeds are sown and watered, the team will keep watch, expecting the 142-year-old Verbascum seeds to put forth tender green shoots.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2021
• The facility agreed to keep watch over Bernadine's room.
  — Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 1 May 2023
• The facility agreed to keep watch over Bernadine's room.
  — Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 1 May 2023
• Lenses in the front and rear keep watch over drivers in the front and back of you, while built-in night vision ensures that you’re still protected once the sun goes down.
  — Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
• In Greek and Roman mythology, for example, the giant Argus Panoptes used his dozens of eyes to keep watch.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 15 July 2021
• Do fellow beekeepers a favor and keep watch for the yellow-legged hornet.
  — Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 16 Aug. 2023
• On Monday night, Pinero put his family in an Airbnb and returned to keep watch at his home, to make sure no one took his remaining things.
  — Dallas News, 26 July 2022
• To keep watch over which extensions are allowed to what in Firefox, choose Add-ons then Extensions from the program menu.
  — David Nield, Wired, 28 June 2020
• Some are being hidden by friends who are helping keep watch or bringing them supplies.
  — Ben Westcott, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
• Billboard charts are updated weekly, so keep watch for Essence climbing even higher up the list.
  — Essence, 12 Oct. 2021
• Dendritic cells keep watch over all parts of the body like sentinels, searching for signs of invading germs – like the coronavirus.
  — Glenn J Rapsinski, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2021
• But the strategy of locking up products, which is cheaper for them than hiring more staff to keep watch throughout a store, has backfired.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• Ukrainian serviceman keep watch at the front line not far from the city of Donetsk, which is not under the control of the Ukrainian government, on Saturday.
  — Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2021
• The family's Cavachons, Duffy and Dilly, keep watch for Santa's arrival.
  — Lacey Howard, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024