Example Sentences

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For much of the next 12 years, soldiers and local watchmen patrolled the streets to ensure that shops remained open and penalize anyone they saw engaging in the usual festive excess.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

Some people had their own fire buckets - and those who could afford it paid insurance companies with watchmen to raise the alarm and crews to put out the fires.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2024

In Edinburgh, he impressed night watchmen by lighting his pipe with a streetlamp.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023

One of the night watchmen is Cuban; so is the waitress at the usual lunch spot; the carpenter just showed up with two Cuban assistants; the salon has just added a Cuban hairdresser.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2019

So they talked until the sun reached its height, and suddenly the noon-bells were rung, and there was a stir in the citadel; for all save the watchmen were going to their meal.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien