Sentence examples for shift watch from inspiring English sources
He was the night shift watch commander until retiring from the police department in 2003.
As the housing needs of boomers shift, watch for a return of a popular living arrangement from the 1960s -- the venerable commune, where like-minded souls shared chores and expenses, found companionship and took care of one another -- at least in theory.
Instead, a drone operator — often a seasoned fighter pilot — spends most of his shift watching and waiting, as automated systems keep the vehicle running.
The Air Force allowed a Washington Post reporter to spend a day with a team of its analysts — the first time a journalist was allowed to spend a full shift watching their secret work — on the condition that their last names were withheld for security reasons.
As one of the search-and-rescue volunteers for the NGO Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI), he was working the midnight-to-morning shift, watching for refugee boats en route from western Turkey.
The duties of many groups are often as simple as rotating through daylong shifts watching over the front.
My partner and I took shifts watching to make sure Juan didn't claw at his oral sutures.
They took shifts watching 24 hours a day so the police and pipeline workers didn't do anything to endanger Nutty's life.
Since the beginning of the summer, tourists have helped out, many trading their holidays for gruelling shifts watching for arriving dinghies, feeding refugees, trying to arrange rudimentary medical help, and organizing the refugees before they move on to Mytilene.
We had known each other well enough in our early days, biding time on endless night shifts, watching dawn break, praying that the nurses would save the next page for the day crew.
I've seen people going for their morning run in complete darkness, and the birds eating kebab leftovers on Sunday morning before the street cleaners arrive; I've seen tired people coming home from late evening shifts, watching warily out of the window.
