'watchfully' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to express an attitude of vigilance or alertness, such as when someone is keeping an eye on a situation. Example sentence: He watched the children play watchfully, making sure no one got hurt.
122nd over: England 377-6 (Stewart 33, Giles 13) Pollock makes it three maidens out of three since lunch as Giles defends watchfully.
He walks a little uncertainly, even watchfully.
Three lightning fires were burning in Yellowstone, and the Park Service was watchfully letting them go.
Against all that the heads that will have to roll in New York and the official gumshoe sitting watchfully at the heart of the bank's operations there are mere bagatelles.At least two other banks will be watching the BNP story with more than casual interest.
Plastered with happy pictures of President Assad, tanks are still stationed watchfully on a grassy patch not far from the district.On May 18th many of Homs's people observed a general strike.
But he is trapped between the frustrated, impatient young 60% of today's Iranians were toddlers or not yet born at the time of the 1979 Islamic takeover who urge him to race ahead, and conservative clerical overlords who wait watchfully to trip him up, and more often than not succeed in doing so.
This lot fly to Ella's rescue whenever she is set sadistically impossible tasks and there's a lovely point where it becomes apparent that they embody the watchfully solicitous spirit of the dead father.
Salle, who was wearing a kind of sailor's blouse, sat quietly and calmly and watchfully, like a boy at a birthday party.
To this day, her estate watchfully guards this correspondence.
They saw themselves merely as cautious and watchfully conservative about the pace of change.
A famous photograph by Cecil Beaton and a canvas by Marguerite Zorach, now in the Smithsonian, both show Marianne with Mary lurking watchfully in the background.
