night watch

NOUN
  1. a watch during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.)
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How To Use night watch In A Sentence

  • I stayed up all night watching Peter Snow's swingometer and cheering every time a blue part of the map turned red.
  • We were arrested and held until the arrival of the night watch .
  • The night watch comes on duty soon.
  • After the Rus'sian invasion they had been relieved of their positions and become window washers, parking attendants, night watchmen, boilermen in public buildings, or at best-and usually with pull'taxi drivers. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Night Watch was elegant but she was old, probably built shortly after World War 11, he figured. CORMORANT
  • The Night Watch ghosted past a few fishing boats and a rotting cabin cruiser, then nosed through the gap in the marina's breakwater. CORMORANT
  • We were arrested and held until the arrival of the night watch .
  • In 1975 I was sitting in the balcony of the Elgin Theatre one electric Manhattan midnight watching through the haze of an opiate ambiance the film Siddhartha, which is based on a Hermann Hesse novel that inundated my generation with yearning. Jack Schimmelman: Sankai Juku (studio by the mountain and the sea)
  • Years ago (as it seems) on a rainy winter evening, we watched the buoys of the Solent Channel streaming past us all aslope on the strong ebb-tide, and as the Trinity Brothers began to open their eyes for an all-night watch on the south coast, we closed ours to the world behind. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
  • His first night on the job the old night watchman gives him a tour, showing Martin the rounds he must make.
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