evening watch

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noun Nautical.

the watch from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m., often adopted in place of the two dogwatches.

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How to use evening watch in a sentence

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I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.
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Angry Birds at its simplest was the same way, though you wanted to watch things collapse and explode.
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The inability to do anything besides binge-watch entire seasons on Netflix.
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In the evening, St. Peter's and its accessories were illuminated—by far the most brilliant spectacle I ever saw.
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Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
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I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
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My son,” said Grabantak one evening to Chingatok, “if we are henceforth to live in peace, why not unite and become one nation?
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One evening, while he was thus engaged, he observed de Patinos and Duke Wharton enter together.
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