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Meanings of watchful in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "vigilant"
Examples for "vigilant"
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
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.
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.
Usage of watchful in inglês
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.
6
Several plain-clothed worshipers seemed watchful, perhaps looking out for any unfamiliar visitors.
7
Meanwhile Weiner is effective as the young Lara, all watchful and self-contained.
8
So Warrington remained alert and watchful; it was all he could do.
9
The march through the forest as the shadows deepened was most watchful.
10
The great, watchful, brooding spirit of the forest went in to him.
11
The watchful breeze seized the opportunity, and charged through the defenceless passage.
12
They were not hostile; they were merely cold and watchful and questioning.
13
No doubt he will keep a watchful eye over the young Mistry.
14
For a few moments the three huddled close together in watchful silence.
15
I think we're in a time when people are being very watchful.
16
His mother sits silent and watchful at the head of the bed.
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Watchful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common