Sentence examples for were watchful from inspiring English sources

While the police were watchful, there were no incidents today.

The residents of the Tower were watchful, and said little as they walked by.

This had to do with their heads, the way they were hanging, and their eyes, which were watchful but, at the same time, averted.

They were watchful with Malian civilians — this was unfamiliar territory for most of them — but there was a great deal of joking around, too.

The pair were watchful to begin with, but once in they combined aggression with common sense, taking their side to 79 without loss in the 15th over.

They were watchful because of the possibility of an ambush— Taliban spotters monitor the patrols from the moment they leave the base but also, it seemed, because alertness appealed to them.

But so was watchful waiting.

"We are watchful.

They are watchful and influential.

We have to be watchful.

I quickly learned to be watchful.