How to Use watch list in a Sentence

watch list

noun
  • Heck, two guys from Colorado are in front of him on the Heisman watch list.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The tight end also earned his way onto the 2023 John Mackey Award watch list.
    Corey Smith, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The winner will be named Dec. 7, though appearing on the watch list is not a requirement to win the award.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Full of laugh-out-loud humor and fresh horrors, The Menu should be on every foodie's watch list.
    Charlotte Walsh, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Tygart was one of 81 pitchers who were named earlier in the week to the watch list for the Stopper of the Year Award as the nation's best closer.
    Arkansas Online, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The nursing home has been on the federal government’s watch list for months.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
  • He had been named to the Outland Trophy preseason watch list earlier in the month.
    Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2023
  • This is not the only asteroid this week to make NASA’s asteroid watch list.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 28 June 2023
  • Perhaps the most fearsome is Ryan Campos, who was named to the Golden Spikes midseason watch list.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
  • And rounding out Rapid Rating’s watch list is Lands’ End, a fashion retailer whose time may have come and gone.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Dino Babers, Syracuse Babers is the only repeat performer from 2022 on this year’s pink slip watch list.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
  • To make this a doable watch list, here are 15 festive films streaming this holiday season.
    Dana Feldman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Jordan Neely, who was killed by another subway rider, was on a watch list for a city task force that kept track of the homeless New Yorkers of most concern.
    James Barron, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • Add these true crime documentaries to your must-watch list Some documentaries aren't exactly for the faint of heart.
    Jacqueline Weiss, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Note: The purpose of this watch list is to track eligible nominees for this year’s national show.
    USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The purpose of this watch list is to track eligible nominees for this year’s national show.
    USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Around 17 million people in California were under flood watches Monday, and southern parts of the state will likely be added to the flood watch list.
    Julianne McShane, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Miller was part of Wooden late-season watch list in January but was not among its final 15 candidates announced March 4.
    Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Nineteen athletes were honored as state-wide players of the year in their respective sports, spring watch list athletes were honored, and eight premier awards were handed out.
    The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2023
  • These unvetted migrants come from as far as China, Iran, and Syria, and have included at least 140 people on the terror watch list this fiscal year alone.
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Arkansas Online, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Below are seven TikTok accounts that are worth following—as well as each one’s pick for a timepiece that’s currently atop their watch list.
    Jake Woolf, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Just more than half of insurers based in Florida are on the state insurance regulator’s watch list due to their financial health.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 June 2023
  • Beyond the five players included on the Manning watch list, the conference is stacked with experienced transfers and one of the nation’s top freshman quarterbacks.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
  • However, some 14 companies fall well under the industry averages in short and longer-term health and are on Rapid Ratings’ watch list for potential default.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The resolution cites the trafficking of fentanyl and apprehension of terror watch list suspects as reasons for his censure.
    David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • This year’s collection of Pac-12 quarterbacks is so deep that when the Manning Award watch list was unveiled on Tuesday, the conference landed six players on the 33-player list — two more than any other conference.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, hundreds of individuals on the United States’ terrorist watch list attempted to enter the country via the southern border.
    Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • In September alone, border officials arrested 18 people on the FBI’s terror watch list.
    Kyle Morris, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The watch list, made up of 25 student-athletes chosen by a poll of national college basketball experts, represents the front-runners for the most prestigious recognition in college basketball.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In response, Block said while its difficult to offer definitive estimates of fraud and illicit activity on its platform, its compliance and risk teams placed just 2.4% of Cash App accounts on a watch list last year.
    Jennifer Surane, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023

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