Watchman is an English word with synonyms like watcher or guard. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Watchman in a sentence
Watchman meaning
A man set to watch: a man who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night; (loosely) any such person of any sex or gender.
Using Watchman
- The main meaning on this page is: A man set to watch: a man who keeps guard, especially one who guards a building, or the streets of a city, by night; (loosely) any such person of any sex or gender.
- Useful related words include: watcher, security guard, guard.
- In the example corpus, watchman often appears in combinations such as: night watchman, the watchman, watchman who.
Context around Watchman
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Watchman
- In this selection, "watchman" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, night, williams, glorified, uses, viewed and newscast stand out and add context to how "watchman" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a glorified watchman viewed as and a night watchman s hut. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "watchman" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with watchman
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
So basically Ozymandias from Watchman. (5 words)
No sprinkler system, no night watchman? (6 words)
This is known as the Watchman’s Oath. (8 words)
However, Booster went rogue and stole the Legends' time machine, after discovering that his position was a joke and that he was little more than a glorified watchman viewed as being too stupid to trust with guarding an important fixed point. (41 words)
On this week’s show, Matthew Harris, author of “Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right history professor at Colorado State University in Pueblo, discusses Benson and his influence on Latter-day Saint politics. (41 words)
National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich based her new book on the life of her grandfather, who worked as a factory night watchman and took his fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Congress. (40 words)
No sprinkler system, no night watchman? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
Netizens were unimpressed with the watchman's revelation and were of the view that now Saif might fire his watchman.
Emmy Award-winning director Stephen Williams (“Watchman”) uses Robinson’s script as if it’s a sketch for an oil painting.
However, Booster went rogue and stole the Legends' time machine, after discovering that his position was a joke and that he was little more than a glorified watchman viewed as being too stupid to trust with guarding an important fixed point.
On today’s Watchman Newscast, host Erick Stakelbeck breaks down comments by the head of the UN’s atomic watchdog.
Shaded by the towering spruce, hemlock and cedar, she listened to the Guardian Watchman tell the story of the 1980s “War in the Woods” and the series of Indigenous-led blockades to stop the island from being logged.
The Scrapped Watchman's attacks are fast but very telegraphed.
This device is also available in a new 40mm size option, which will enable physicians to treat a broader range of anatomies with the WATCHMAN technology.
A policeman sitting in a night watchman's hut takes notes on traffic at Haymarket to monitor any bottle necks.
A wall and fence were blown on to the line at Glasgow Queen Street, while the River Tay breached safety limits at the Dalguise Viaduct on the Highland Mainline, forcing the overnight watchman to abandon the site.
This is known as the Watchman’s Oath.
Watchman will be also coaching two wrestlers on the girls team, with seniors Dosha Wortham qualifying at 107 and Lyndsey Thomas at 132.
Brent Reed, 47, said his night watchman was confronted by a three tonne hippo in the back garden of his home in Maun, Botswana, in the early hours of December 31.
He preferred black stations that featured characters like Daddy Rabbit with the ‘do right habit’, and Hank the “night watchman”.
In 1897, an issue of the Carolina Watchman described a terrifying encounter with the Santer near Salisbury.
It is believed that the watchman might have been attacked and beaten sometime after 22:30hrs.
National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich based her new book on the life of her grandfather, who worked as a factory night watchman and took his fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Congress.
No sprinkler system, no night watchman?
On this week’s show, Matthew Harris, author of “Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right history professor at Colorado State University in Pueblo, discusses Benson and his influence on Latter-day Saint politics.
Right now, there is shortage in carpenters, auto taxi drivers and also the watchman at under construction buildings.
So basically Ozymandias from Watchman.
Common combinations with watchman
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- night watchman 17×
- the watchman 12×
- watchman who 4×
- watchman was 3×
- of watchman 3×
- watchman at 3×
- hai watchman 3×
- watchman is 3×
- as watchman 3×
- watchman to 2×