How to Use watchtower in a Sentence

watchtower

noun
  • Its watchtowers are crenelated and the wall itself is as thick as 12 feet in some places.
    Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 4 July 2019
  • The watchtower can serve as a guest house, an office or a studio.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • The store will also be shaped like a medieval watchtower, so uh, look out for that.
    Dami Lee, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2018
  • An Israeli watchtower sits in a gray-walled base on the road into town.
    Lawahez Jabari, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Across the street is a stretch of the wall, complete with death strip and watchtower, and poignant memorials to those shot trying to flee.
    Alison Smale, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
  • Its four floors consist of a basement and three living spaces, with the watchtower at the very top bearing the light.
    Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2023
  • From the top of the watchtower at Fordson High School, metro Detroit can be seen in all directions, for miles.
    Hasan Dudar, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2018
  • The first will be a traditional hedge maze, with a watchtower.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2017
  • Those who died were believed to be taking selfies in the rain on the top of Amer Fort's watchtower, the outlet reported.
    Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
  • The blast gutted a historic 1886 fire watchtower and the school opposite.
    Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Today, the Royal Heritage Museum is housed in the watchtower at the fortress.
    Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
  • One video showed a pair of uniformed men climbing onto a watchtower.
    Josef Federman, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • Mr Murthy built 11 watchtowers across the park, from which guards look out for the splotches of red light that poachers use to attract animals at night.
    The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Ogrodzieniec Castle is part of a string of castles and watchtowers resembling eagles’ nests along the sides of the hills known as Trail of the Eagles’ Nests.
    Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 4 Jan. 2020
  • In other words, the Super Friends' watchtower will be crowded.
    Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Dey, who was part of a force manning the camp’s watchtowers, was 17 and 18 at the time of the alleged offenses, so he is being tried in a youth court, Sky News reported.
    Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The ruins of two watchtowers, built long ago to guard the oasis, stand overlooking the farmland, one in the middle of a field, another perched on a rugged hilltop.
    Ian James, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
  • On Monday, amid barren trees, a Greek guard sat in a watchtower, making sure no people or dinghies enter the water.
    Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The watchtower, as this wing of the palace is known, was also a perfect vantage point for surveying his subjects on the open plain beneath its windows.
    The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • An Auschwitz watchtower is visible from the pool’s waterslide, peeking above the wall.
    Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Among ancient ruins are the stone outline of an early Christian church, Roman baths and a watchtower.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The watchtower, lens and prism survived, but the turning system, with fuel lines, pulleys and cables need to be cleaned and likely replaced.
    Richard Kurin, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The 528-square-mile zone is a sparsely populated strip marked by watchtowers, tank traps and barbed wire that extends several miles south from the DMZ.
    Yun-Hwan Chae, WSJ, 7 June 2018
  • The second new mural shows Trump wrapping his arm around an Israeli watchtower as if to kiss it, a shower of pink hearts covering the area between his arm and his mouth.
    Noga Tarnopolsky, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Not to be outdone by Galadriel, Arondir takes down ranks of orcs with his bow and arrow and by collapsing the massive stone watchtower with one well-timed, flaming arrow.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Pack a lunch, as there are no restaurants or hotels on this island, just a dutiful watchtower, a few seasonal digs, and the peaceful sounds of nature.
    Jessica Benavides Canepa, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The retro peach beach umbrellas and private bay views, all with a backdrop in the shadow of a 16th-century watchtower, will undoubtedly stop you in your tracks.
    Maria Pasquale, CNN, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Way up on a 1,300-foot-high peak, an old stone watchtower surely makes for even more spectacular sunrises.
    John Oseid, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • The local tourists, some of whom were taking selfies, were visiting the Amer Fort, built in the late late 1500s, in the capital city of Jaipur when lightning struck a nearby watchtower, Reuters reported.
    Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • Crematoria lie in rubble but still intact are the rail tracks and watchtowers and some of the barracks where prisoners slept in cold, cramped conditions.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020

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