Carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger.
(Of sleep) easily disturbed.
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Examples for "watchful "
Examples for "watchful "
1 Be watchful of the air-holes; I think you know the path well.
2 Each of the four watchful men in the narrow apartment breathed softly.
3 Remain on the road at all times and be watchful for highwaymen.
4 In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps.
5 The watchful jealousy of the Colchians foresaw and averted the approaching ruin.
1 Clinicians and public health practitioners should remain vigilant for new EVALI cases.
2 Mr Key said while New Zealand was relatively safe, authorities remained vigilant .
3 Today, the industry is more vigilant than ever with regard to education.
4 Andy Wilkinson, from the Environment Agency, said: People need to be vigilant .
5 All of our public health is dependent upon the least vigilant citizen.
1 The lost chelonans were cowed, and looked with open - eyed hopelessness at Judah.
2 Scarlett Trent looked at him for a moment open mouthed and open-eyed .
3 Being alone with her, her silence and open-eyed immobility made him uncomfortable.
4 There was Luise, who was both open - eyed and bare-faced to the clickstones.
5 It dismays those who are sympathetic to the cause but also open - eyed .
1 It was Alvarez de Quadra, Bishop of Aquila, the argus-eyed ambassador of Spain.
2 His telephone message had thrown a cordon of argus-eyed men around New York.
3 Those agency employes were argus-eyed , watching each move made by him and his assistants.
4 Even the ' argus - eyed press' has no theory to offer.
5 The Capitol building gleamed, argus-eyed on the hill.
Marked by full consciousness or alertness.
1 I wish I did; but I am one of the wakeful kind.
2 So everyone spent the hours of darkness in wakeful watching and waiting.
3 Stephen sometimes slept; Elfride alone was wakeful and palpitating hour after hour.
4 This watchful guardian of the mid-world is as wakeful as the birds.
5 He was wakeful and that wretched Habanera kept throbbing in his head.
6 With the epidemic of fires she was once more restless and wakeful .
7 In a few minutes a too- wakeful mind struggled with an exhausted body.
8 I believe the old man happened to be wakeful and heard it.
9 He would not pass the night wakeful and wasted by your love.
10 None of them spoke till they were far from the wakeful children.
11 I only knew that it was very strange, and kept me wakeful .
12 The night creaked in on the wings of countless wakeful insects churring.
13 Through the wakeful night, Hugh's helpless situation was perpetually in his thoughts.
14 A few wakeful ones glanced at him over the tops of magazines.
15 An owl is not more wakeful than he has been of late.
16 He opened his eyes, moaned and groaned, and awoke wakeful at once.
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