Examples of watchtower in a Sentence
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McBride played an explosives expert in the film and was given an earpiece to communicate with the set as his character was perched in a watchtower above the production.
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Zack Sharf, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
At the end of the road stands the barrier wall that fences off the refugee camp, and behind it, a concrete Israeli watchtower.
—Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
The crack of gunfire goes off and Ramy falls to the ground, a second before the firework bursts into a red shower of flame above the boys — roughly 50 yards from the watchtower.
—Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Her bones would grow old, and she would be buried somewhere beneath the floodlights and the watchtowers.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
The chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Randy Moore, told lawmakers in March that the agency was moving away from humans in watchtowers.
—Raymond Zhong Mark Felix, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
In recent weeks, Egypt has fortified its border with Gaza by strengthening border fences and adding surveillance measures, watchtowers and control sensors.
—Forbes International, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
Five years later, two men escaped from a maximum-security Wisconsin prison that once held Jeffrey Dahmer, fleeing early one morning when four of the facility’s five watchtowers were unmanned.
—Mario Koran, The New York Times / Wisconsin Watch and Justin Mayo, Big Local News, Journal Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2024
They are then seen approaching and moving past a watchtower – the military base’s large communication tower is seen in the distance.
—Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
Zack Sharf, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
At the end of the road stands the barrier wall that fences off the refugee camp, and behind it, a concrete Israeli watchtower.
—Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
The crack of gunfire goes off and Ramy falls to the ground, a second before the firework bursts into a red shower of flame above the boys — roughly 50 yards from the watchtower.
—Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
Her bones would grow old, and she would be buried somewhere beneath the floodlights and the watchtowers.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
The chief of the U.S. Forest Service, Randy Moore, told lawmakers in March that the agency was moving away from humans in watchtowers.
—Raymond Zhong Mark Felix, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
In recent weeks, Egypt has fortified its border with Gaza by strengthening border fences and adding surveillance measures, watchtowers and control sensors.
—Forbes International, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
Five years later, two men escaped from a maximum-security Wisconsin prison that once held Jeffrey Dahmer, fleeing early one morning when four of the facility’s five watchtowers were unmanned.
—Mario Koran, The New York Times / Wisconsin Watch and Justin Mayo, Big Local News, Journal Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2024
They are then seen approaching and moving past a watchtower – the military base’s large communication tower is seen in the distance.
—Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1544, in the meaning defined above
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“Watchtower.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/watchtower. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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watchtower
noun
watch·tow·er
ˈwäch-ˌtau̇(-ə)r 
ˈwȯch-
: a tower for a lookout
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