How to Use watchtower in a Sentence

watchtower

noun

• Its watchtowers are crenelated and the wall itself is as thick as 12 feet in some places.
  — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 4 July 2019
• The watchtower can serve as a guest house, an office or a studio.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• The store will also be shaped like a medieval watchtower, so uh, look out for that.
  — Dami Lee, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2018
• An Israeli watchtower sits in a gray-walled base on the road into town.
  — Lawahez Jabari, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2018
• Her bones would grow old, and she would be buried somewhere beneath the floodlights and the watchtowers.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Across the street is a stretch of the wall, complete with death strip and watchtower, and poignant memorials to those shot trying to flee.
  — Alison Smale, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
• At the end of the road stands the barrier wall that fences off the refugee camp, and behind it, a concrete Israeli watchtower.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• Its four floors consist of a basement and three living spaces, with the watchtower at the very top bearing the light.
  — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2023
• From the top of the watchtower at Fordson High School, metro Detroit can be seen in all directions, for miles.
  — Hasan Dudar, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2018
• The first will be a traditional hedge maze, with a watchtower.
  — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2017
• Settlers soon installed a camera on a watchtower on the edge of Shilo, about 60 feet from his home.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
• Those who died were believed to be taking selfies in the rain on the top of Amer Fort's watchtower, the outlet reported.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
• The blast gutted a historic 1886 fire watchtower and the school opposite.
  — Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 28 Apr. 2022
• The crack of gunfire goes off and Ramy falls to the ground, a second before the firework bursts into a red shower of flame above the boys — roughly 50 yards from the watchtower.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• Today, the Royal Heritage Museum is housed in the watchtower at the fortress.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
• One video showed a pair of uniformed men climbing onto a watchtower.
  — Josef Federman, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• Mr Murthy built 11 watchtowers across the park, from which guards look out for the splotches of red light that poachers use to attract animals at night.
  — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
• Ogrodzieniec Castle is part of a string of castles and watchtowers resembling eagles’ nests along the sides of the hills known as Trail of the Eagles’ Nests.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 4 Jan. 2020
• In other words, the Super Friends' watchtower will be crowded.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2021
• Dey, who was part of a force manning the camp’s watchtowers, was 17 and 18 at the time of the alleged offenses, so he is being tried in a youth court, Sky News reported.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The ruins of two watchtowers, built long ago to guard the oasis, stand overlooking the farmland, one in the middle of a field, another perched on a rugged hilltop.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
• On Monday, amid barren trees, a Greek guard sat in a watchtower, making sure no people or dinghies enter the water.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2020
• The watchtower, as this wing of the palace is known, was also a perfect vantage point for surveying his subjects on the open plain beneath its windows.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• An Auschwitz watchtower is visible from the pool’s waterslide, peeking above the wall.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• Among ancient ruins are the stone outline of an early Christian church, Roman baths and a watchtower.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• The watchtower, lens and prism survived, but the turning system, with fuel lines, pulleys and cables need to be cleaned and likely replaced.
  — Richard Kurin, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2019
• The 528-square-mile zone is a sparsely populated strip marked by watchtowers, tank traps and barbed wire that extends several miles south from the DMZ.
  — Yun-Hwan Chae, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• The second new mural shows Trump wrapping his arm around an Israeli watchtower as if to kiss it, a shower of pink hearts covering the area between his arm and his mouth.
  — Noga Tarnopolsky, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Not to be outdone by Galadriel, Arondir takes down ranks of orcs with his bow and arrow and by collapsing the massive stone watchtower with one well-timed, flaming arrow.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 30 Sep. 2022
• Here came another watchtower, this one with soldiers in it surrounded by oodles of barbed wire.
  — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024