Example Sentences

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Watchfulness against the Japanese government’s likely currency intervention will also remain high around the 160 threshold, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Walk through the north door of the Nebraska state capitol and you’ll see a motto carved in stone over the doorway: “The Salvation of the State is Watchfulness in the Citizen.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2017

Watchfulness is her defining trait, and Ms. Fanning can do more with her eyes than performers many times her age.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2010

Watchfulness is indispensable to vigour of Christian character and efficiency of work.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Maclaren, Alexander

Watchfulness; self-offering; surrendering to 579:9 the creator the early fruits of experience.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker