watch
verb (used without object)
to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens.
will have been watching
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future perfect progressiveof watch.future perfect progressive
Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.
Example Sentences
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He can be sure the power-holders in Melbourne, Paris and London will have been watching the New York trendsetters with intrigue.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
And as the largest manufacturer of cars in the EU - thanks to VW, Mercedes and BMW - Germany will have been watching closely.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
All over Europe managers and players will have been watching; realising that a new chapter in European football was being written, thinking: "How can we possibly compete with this?"
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2013
Rio Ferdinand, among the Wembley crowd, will have been watching with interest.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2013
She fears Marie will have been watching for her all the afternoon and worrying perhaps, little Marie, the lame factory girl whom she has111 befriended, the girl with eyes so strangely like to Richard's.
From The Alchemist's Secret by Isabel Cecilia Williams
