Sentence examples for arm watch from inspiring English sources

The phrase "arm watch" is not commonly used in written English, but it can be understood as referring to a watch worn on the arm.
You can use it when describing a type of watch that is typically worn on the wrist.
Example: "He adjusted his arm watch before heading out for the day."
Alternatives: "wristwatch" or "watch".

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The wristwatch - the first wearable timepiece - only replaced the pocket watch at the beginning of the 20th Century (though we are told that Elizabeth I was presented with an "arm watch" by Robert Dudley in 1571).

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To the line, "This is the sound of your heart hitting the floor," Peter Chu touches his chest and extends his arm, watching his hand drift like a leaf onto the floor.

It later continues down the phone line from the University Oval in Dunedin, where he is sitting behind the bowler's arm watching Andrew Strauss, preferred to the in-form Owais Shah, at the crease in a three-day game against a New Zealand Invitation XI. "How's he batting?" I ask.

And yet the beautiful brown cape on this Saxony's shoulders carried the deep past of evolution directly into the present, where I stood with the drake under my arm, watching the leaves whirl away from summer into fall, while the rest of the flock grazed nearby as if this were just another good day to be a duck.

And look at you: standing in line, your soiled trousers folded neatly beneath your arm, watching as the boy behind the counter somehow manages to vape through a cigarette holder, thinking about where to get brunch: you're on a slippery slope, my friend.

The arms "watch" what your real arms are doing and, using video analysis, try to pitch in when needed.

The occupiers have posted lookouts and keep armed watch outside the office building where the Bundys have set up their headquarters, but there is no one for tens of miles around, except for members of the media who appear for press conferences called by the Bundys.

Old, broken bricks are piled in front of a blown-up picture of a woman and a young boy with upraised arms watched by rifle-toting German soldiers.

"We had our typical security, armed watches up on the quarter-deck and everything," he said today at the Naval Medical Center here.

In one instance old, broken bricks are piled in front of a picture of a woman and a boy, among others, with upraised arms, watched by rifle-toting German soldiers.

Jameer Nelson, the consensus player of the year last season, sat with his two-year-old son, Jameer Jr., in his arms, watching the parade of high school stars, including Sebastian Telfair, take the stage before him.

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