watchtower
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How to use watchtower in a sentence
From a wooden watchtower above the forest, scouts also track and report illegal logging.
How Kenyans help themselves and the planet by saving mangrove trees | Geoffrey Kamadi | September 14, 2022 | Science NewsOne is enclosed by thick perimeter walls and a second layer of internal fencing, with an internal watchtower and roadblocks outside a guarded entrance, according to satellite imagery in 2018 analyzed by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Solar industry’s ties to China’s Xinjiang region raise specter of forced labor | Lily Kuo, Pei Lin Wu, Jeanne Whalen | June 24, 2021 | Washington PostFrom the watchtower it could see into every bedroom, every landing, every bathroom.
Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousWhen within a mile of the town, they must have been sighted by the Dervish sentries on a lofty watchtower.
With Kitchener in the Soudan | G. A. Henty
It might have been a watchtower from the extent of its view, which swept the lake up to the Indian village.
Bluebell | Mrs. George Croft HuddlestonI am going to try by that route to get into the cavern and thence up to the watchtower aerial-sender.
Astounding Stories, June, 1931 | VariousA small watchtower is kept manned even now, but it's a hungry land, and one which would drain even a baron's funds.
Millennium | Everett B. Cole
British Dictionary definitions for watchtower
/ (ˈwɒtʃˌtaʊə) /
a tower on which a sentry keeps watch
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