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US
/ˈwɑtʃfəɫ/
]
[ UK /wˈɒtʃfəl/ ]
[ UK /wˈɒtʃfəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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engaged in or accustomed to close observation
caught by a couple of alert cops
constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty
alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came -
experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness
twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights
insomniac old people
insomniac nights
lay sleepless all night
How To Use watchful In A Sentence
- It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
- For all his bold chivalry this watchful Celt seems surely to have strayed from a wayside pulpit.
- Under the Watchful eye of the demon, wander alone in the formless Chaos.
- He was watchful, weary, worried, and altogether untrusting of anything she and her companions said or did.
- Eating under the watchful eye of Chloe, the engagement party lunch was fabulous.
- I must be especially watchful for assumptions which can be the root of misunderstandings.
- It was not discovered by the severe indagation and watchfulness of ministers of state from foreign intelligence, -- the usual way of discovering such plots. The Sermons of John Owen
- Gymnasts start early and children as young as two use soft apparatus to learn their first somersault and handspring, under the watchful eyes of more than 20 qualified coaches.
- Between [Tilda] Swinton's wounded, watchful eyes and [Amber] Tamblyn's soft internality emerges something that transcends the inherently stale nature of their transactions. GreenCine Daily: Stephanie Daley.
- He first learnt to fish under the watchful eye of his grandmother.
