How to Use watchman in a Sentence

watchman

noun

• A watchman stopped them at the gate.
• Arnold said his client didn’t know why there wasn’t a watchman or what the cause of the fire might be.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• Well, there might be an opening as a night watchman on the docks.
  — Whitney Tower, Town & Country, 5 Feb. 2014
• The men then put the water canisters into the boot of the car, the NEI watchman said.
  — Anna Coren, CNN, 14 Sep. 2021
• One of the six crew members was supposed to have served as a night watchman.
  — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2019
• The term Jack-o'-lantern comes from the idea of a night watchman, who would light the street lanterns every evening, CNN noted.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 8 July 2022
• The name jack-o’-lantern can also be derived from the night watchman who would light the street lanterns every evening.
  — CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• There are night watchmen trudging through the snow and a lamplighter with his ladder and lantern.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• In the city of Lausanne, near the French border, a watchman climbs to the top of a cathedral’s bell tower to call out the time every hour.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 14 June 2019
• The police briefly detained a night watchman, but then released him.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• Moore’s opus was about the extent to which people place their trust in costumed avengers and asked the age-old question of who watches the watchmen.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2019
• The night watchman at a restaurant across the street runs a hose every other day to their house to fill up buckets of water.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2019
• His father, James, was a night watchman and laborer who died when Franklin was 11.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• One, in New York City, missed the judge who was apparently its object but killed a night watchman.
  — Adam Hochschild, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022
• Manhattan’s main fire alarm was a bell in the City Hall copula tolled by a watchman who scanned the low skyline for licks of flame.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• Trump is their neighborhood watchman, rattling all the doors to make sure they’re firmly shut.
  — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
• Even after all that has unfolded in Kherson in the past nine months, Mr. Skvortsov, the watchman, seems deeply moved by what happened that night.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2022
• The great difference is that the watchman is now a willing accomplice.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 12 June 2020
• He is accused of failing to train his crew, conduct fire drills and post a roving night watchman on the boat when the fire ignited.
  — CBS News, 18 Oct. 2022
• One version occurs at the old rifle range, where the watchman — also armed with a rifle — wakes from the assault to find his weapon bent in half.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018
• Over the years the canals were filled, and the house evolved to meet the needs of the city, also serving as a tool shed for park staff, a watchman’s lodge, and a temporary holding cell for Park Police.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• In time, Joel moved to Columbia and was hired on as a night watchman at the Joyful Alternative.
  — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
• Greco was standing in as night watchman the evening of his death, charging documents said.
  — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2019
• Six horses escaped with the help of a night watchman; the other 19 died, and the barn burned to the ground, taking an adjacent veterinary barn and the siding on the house across the street with it.
  — Perry A. Farrell, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2017
• This one looks like the night watchman at an animal processing plant.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 2 Nov. 2019
• Church watchman Maru Gebremariam said the dead have been buried in mass graves and have not been given a proper burial.
  — Sohel Uddin, ABC News, 23 June 2021
• On the two occasions when a security officer stopped by to check on the hangars, the watchman used a walkie-talkie to warn the others to stay quiet.
  — Wired, 17 Oct. 2019
• Although no watchman patrols this maze of valuable knowledge, the patron does not feel safe.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 26 May 2020
• On the night of October 8th, the watchmen on duty did not spot the flames on DeKoven Street for nearly half an hour, delaying the initial response.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• For anyone wondering who will watch the watchmen, Musk claimed the system would be self-correcting thanks to his decision to open his programming code up for public scrutiny.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024