Sentence examples for watchman from inspiring English sources
The word "watchman" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a person who watches over a place or area to make sure that it is kept safe and secure. For example, "The watchman kept a close eye on the perimeter of the property."
noun
One set to watch; a person who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night.
The school has a watchman who would be checking to see that residents no longer come to graze their cattle on the school compound.
Some residents have installed metal gates at the entrances to their alleys and lock them at midnight.Leaving the Pentagon, your correspondent is persuaded by concerned patrons to hire a watchman as an escort.
In this context her staff of 50, footmen, pages, dressers, chauffeurs and a watchman who sat outside her door at night, seem less like deferential lackeys, more like warders.A remarkable number of royals have in recent years broken out of the gilded prison.
But amid complaints from orphanages that they cannot cope with the high volume of babies, the policy is getting a second look.In this section Paying for the grey Web of intrigue Bundle of tragedy ReprintsAt the Tianjin facility, a surly watchman says visitors are not allowed in and that the facility will close soon.
Nonetheless he has high hopes his flock will donate generously.The Masai watchman, who alone among residents refuses to divulge his name, takes your correspondent to where many of his nightly journeys end.
Other Klan job titles include Grand Imperial Wizard (CEO), Grand Magi (vice-president), Grand Scribe (secretary), Grand Dragon of the Realm (vice-president), Hydra (assistant to the vice-president), Grand Titan of the Dominion (regional vice-president), Grand Titan of the Province (assistant regional vice-president), Lictor (security guard) and Night Hawk (night watchman).
Trotta, the son of a Slovene watchman, takes a bullet in the shoulder.
It's worth adding that, in my opinion, the libertarian anarchist is right that if the public-goods argument justifies the services of the night-watchman state, it also justifies much more.
Even before their planned roll-back of the night-watchman state, both parties had more of a liberal tradition than Labour.
His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant".Yet as the 19th century wore on, "New Liberals", including Mill himself, began to question the morality of the "night-watchman state".
Left-leaning commentators pine constantly for the all-but-universal unionisation equilibrium, yet this seems no more likely to come to pass than the libertarian night-watchman state.
