How to Use vigilance in a Sentence

vigilance

noun

• The bulletin urged vigilance ahead of the midterm elections.
  — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2022
• For me, the vigilance of keeping that voice out was the hardest part.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
• His vigilance paid off in the form of a city housing voucher.
  — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Too much vigilance, on the other hand, will not serve you.
  — Emily Barasch, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2021
• That speaks well of the man footing the bill, Barry Diller, who mixed largesse with vigilance.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 June 2021
• Kurzel ends on a note of vigilance, the target in sight, the work just beginning.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
• But none of that vigilance mattered when my son slipped off that couch.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• Still, extra vigilance becomes part of the learning curve on the ship, too.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• The constant vigilance may help keep the nests safe from predators like the brown skua bird, which feeds on penguin eggs and chicks.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• There is nothing like a duty of vigilance law in the United States.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• Even with all that vigilance, a man ended his life with a gun on the shooting range in Marcon’s store in 2017.
  — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• But there is a sense of vigilance and preparation for the worst-case scenario.
  — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
• The challenge through these three acts is how to maintain vigilance.
  — Marin Gjaja, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2020
• Could that have been avoided by greater vigilance on set?
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
• At a certain point, though, vigilance brings its own risks.
  — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 3 Dec. 2020
• At the same time, many people, even some of the most cautious, have lost their appetite for vigilance, and rules have grown harder to keep track of.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
• But one false positive doesn’t lessen the need for vigilance.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• For some people in lines of work that require them to visit a stranger’s home unannounced, vigilance is just part of job.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• For those who call the mountains of Ait Mahmoud home, vigilance is paramount.
  — Madjid Serrah, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
• The first step is simple vigilance, something all these parties are well-versed in.
  — Ben Dowsett, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
• In a 23-minute speech, Mr. Biden said the U.S. was operating on a war footing and urged the weary public to maintain vigilance against the virus.
  — Sabrina Siddiqui, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
• Aside from the constant vigilance staffed lookouts provide, there is a romance to the work itself.
  — Hannah Kingsley-Ma, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2022
• Thanks to luck and ever-increasing vigilance of the heavens, the whole world was watching.
  — Dennis Overbye New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
• At the end of the day, Houstonians remained resilient throughout the Spanish Flu era with a vigilance to stemming the spread of the flu.
  — Alison Medley, Houston Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2020
• This constant vigilance leaves locals with a sense of unease; of grief.
  — Yxta Maya Murray, Longreads, 19 Aug. 2020
• Of course, in today’s times, this can only be managed with some painful cuts and with constant vigilance.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Jan. 2022
• When the first person yawns, that cue prompts everybody else to do the same, raising the group’s overall vigilance and safety.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
• But the second year of the pandemic just might — with vigilance, prudence and a bit of luck — be vastly different from the first.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
• With more dangerous surf expected, officials are urging vigilance to prevent further tragedies.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
• Constant vigilance is difficult when a human operator is remotely observing the battlefield through the sensors of a maintenance-hungry ground robot.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025