How to Use vigilance in a Sentence

vigilance

noun

• The bulletin urged vigilance ahead of the midterm elections.
  — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2022
• His vigilance paid off in the form of a city housing voucher.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Too much vigilance, on the other hand, will not serve you.
  — Emily Barasch, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2021
• That speaks well of the man footing the bill, Barry Diller, who mixed largesse with vigilance.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 June 2021
• But none of that vigilance mattered when my son slipped off that couch.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• Still, extra vigilance becomes part of the learning curve on the ship, too.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• The constant vigilance may help keep the nests safe from predators like the brown skua bird, which feeds on penguin eggs and chicks.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• There is nothing like a duty of vigilance law in the United States.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• Even with all that vigilance, a man ended his life with a gun on the shooting range in Marcon’s store in 2017.
  — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• But there is a sense of vigilance and preparation for the worst-case scenario.
  — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• Could that have been avoided by greater vigilance on set?
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• At the same time, many people, even some of the most cautious, have lost their appetite for vigilance, and rules have grown harder to keep track of.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• But one false positive doesn’t lessen the need for vigilance.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• For some people in lines of work that require them to visit a stranger’s home unannounced, vigilance is just part of job.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• Aside from the constant vigilance staffed lookouts provide, there is a romance to the work itself.
  — Hannah Kingsley-Ma, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2022
• Of course, in today’s times, this can only be managed with some painful cuts and with constant vigilance.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Jan. 2022
• When the first person yawns, that cue prompts everybody else to do the same, raising the group’s overall vigilance and safety.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
• Still, many people have long since lost their appetite for vigilance.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2022
• The red stripe is for valor, the white stripe for purity and the blue stripe for justice, vigilance and permanency.
  — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
• In New York City, police said houses of worship would be the focus of extra vigilance.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 May 2022
• Really watch your kids in the water Constant vigilance can go a long way when children are in the pool, Muckey said.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
• Assuredly, the nuclear forces of the United States and Russia, ever at the ready, are at a heightened state of vigilance.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• As theaters start to reopen this summer, artists are watching with a new vigilance to see if those promises will be kept.
  — Lauren Smart, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
• We are reminded that, at the movies, freedom requires choice and vigilance.
  — Armond White, National Review, 7 May 2021
• Despite the vigilance, at least nine videos with Christchurch footage appeared on Gab, another fringe site, in 2021, according to the review by The Times.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2022
• But vigilance will be needed to thwart waste and corruption.
  — Richard Vague, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2021
• This is, in other words, hardly a moment to decrease our vigilance.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
• The world for both of these characters is a battlefield, and any relaxation of vigilance leaves them with an exposed flank.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• The crush of people streaming toward sites like the Spanish Steps, and the harsh vigilance of guards, will ensure that most anyone who ventures there will want to leave as quickly as possible.
  — Paul Thornton, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• French interior minister Gérald Darmanin has spent the past week justifying these measures as vigilance—not overkill.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024