How to Use watchword in a Sentence

watchword

noun

• Sad and somber and solemn were once again the day’s watchwords.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• And that felt like the under-the-surface watchword of the evening.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The truth is, success would be nice, but the watchword here in Year 1 of a new era is progress.
  — Howard Megdal, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• Simple was the watchword—and that applied to the service, too.
  — Lee Marshall, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2021
• Drought was the watchword of the week: dry soils plagued the tour participants throughout the western crop belt.
  — Kim Chipman, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2022
• This is the power of trade in general and why free trade has been our watchword since World War II.
  — Steve Butler, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2017
• Amateurism is no longer the watchword of the Olympic movement: The word appears nowhere in the 112 pages of the current Olympic Charter.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• Mishaps can happen, even when caution is the watchword.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2017
• Fiscal restraint has been a watchword for the party for decades.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2017
• As a parent, the watchword in our household was modesty.
  — Randy Blaser, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2017
• Out on a Limb: Eclectic and stylish fashions are the watchword at Out on a Limb – along with must have accessories and gifts.
  — By Andrew Marton, star-telegram, 4 Oct. 2017
• Pressure is almost a watchword of modern life — like speed and change.
  — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• Balance was the watchword of the day for UW, which held a 24-point lead in the second half before Ohio State staged a mini-rally.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Feb. 2020
• Common sense must be the watchword for boaters who take to the bay and ocean on federal holidays.
  — David C. Henley, Daily Pilot, 26 May 2017
• Taking place at a factory that makes scales, the film adopts balance as its theme and watchword.
  — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
• In music, the watchword has been uneasy, applied even to escapist fare.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 7 May 2018
• For him and his fellow reporters, phony was the watchword—an instinct.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
• Scale and speed are watchwords for Mr. Musk and his save-the-world view of business, which addresses some of the biggest pressure points in climate change.
  — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 24 July 2016
• This follows from what became my watchword as a novelist: a line from a letter Don DeLillo wrote to me in the mid-’90s.
  — Merve Emre, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
• These, asking forgiveness from Shakespeare, are the watchwords of the coming year.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
• The profound effect on 10-year-old Elizabeth, Lacey says, is that from then on duty was her watchword.
  — Maria Puente and Jeff Stinson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• Resilience has replaced efficiency as the watchword of the day.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022
• The 1619 Project has emerged as a watchword for our era — a hashtag, a talking point, a journalism case study, a scholarly mission.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
• All of these skills are helpful for a big man in the modern NBA, where mobility and versatility are the watchwords of the era.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 18 Apr. 2020
• But in a time when change is the watchword, the nation’s political divide looks remarkably durable.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2023
• Sorry might have been the watchword for Sunday’s performance.
  — Gary Klein Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2021
• Inflation is the watchword as the Federal Reserve kicks off a two-day meeting on Tuesday.
  — NBC News, 15 June 2021
• Defense is the watchword in this game, with both teams ranked in the top 10 in kenpom.com’s adjusted defensive efficiency.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Austerity, that watchword of decades past, is finished.
  — Felicia Wong, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• The watchword for activists should be: Choose your battle wisely for constructive impact, lest it be seen as a shakedown driven by vanity.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024