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How to use the word watchman in a Sentence?

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We both work day and night. You guard homes and I guard the nation, the watchman has become a symbol of the country's nationalism. – Narendra Modi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The watchman has become a symbol of the country's nationalism. – Narendra Modi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The watchman inspects the canal and, if any repair is needed, immediately informs the committee president or secretary, and they in turn ask a member to go and repair it. – Chakradhar Talukdar	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Nobody watches the watchman. – Juan Pablo Adame	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Was it an earlier draft of 'Watchman,' or of 'Mockingbird,' or even, as early correspondence indicates it might be, a third book bridging the two? I don't know. – Tonja Carter	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's possible 'Go Set a Watchman' will turn out to be a great work of literature, but it will have some awfully stiff competition. Few books can outdo the one we've written in our minds. – Steven Zeitchick	Found on CNN 8 years ago
'Go Set a Watchman' begins with Scout's train ride home, but more profoundly, it is about the journey Harper Lee's beloved characters have taken in the subsequent 20 years of their lives. – Michael Morrison	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
She is alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions of 'Watchman,' go Set a Watchman. – Tonja Carter	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The gist of it was that due to her condition, they were restricting visits to her very closest friends, watchman. – Sam Therrell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
She is alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions of 'Watchman,'. – Tonja Carter	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called' Go Set a Watchman,' it features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel( what became' To Kill a Mockingbird') from the point of view of the young Scout. – Harper Lee	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The existence of' Go Set a Watchman' was unknown until recently, and its discovery is an extraordinary gift to the many readers and fans of' To Kill a Mockingbird,' reading in many ways like a sequel to Harper Lee's classic novel, it is a compelling and ultimately moving narrative about a father and a daughter's relationship, and the life of a small Alabama town living through the racial tensions of the 1950s. – Jonathan Burnham	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman. – Tallulah Bankhead	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases. – Josiah Stamp, Attibuted to Sir Josiah Stamp (1849 - 1941) HM Collector of Inland Revenue.	added by anonymous 13 years ago

We both work day and night. You guard homes and I guard the nation, the watchman has become a symbol of the country's nationalism.

– Narendra Modi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The watchman has become a symbol of the country's nationalism.

– Narendra Modi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The watchman inspects the canal and, if any repair is needed, immediately informs the committee president or secretary, and they in turn ask a member to go and repair it.

– Chakradhar Talukdar

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Nobody watches the watchman.

– Juan Pablo Adame

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Was it an earlier draft of 'Watchman,' or of 'Mockingbird,' or even, as early correspondence indicates it might be, a third book bridging the two? I don't know.

– Tonja Carter

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's possible 'Go Set a Watchman' will turn out to be a great work of literature, but it will have some awfully stiff competition. Few books can outdo the one we've written in our minds.

– Steven Zeitchick

Found on CNN
8 years ago

'Go Set a Watchman' begins with Scout's train ride home, but more profoundly, it is about the journey Harper Lee's beloved characters have taken in the subsequent 20 years of their lives.

– Michael Morrison

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

She is alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions of 'Watchman,' go Set a Watchman.

– Tonja Carter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The gist of it was that due to her condition, they were restricting visits to her very closest friends, watchman.

– Sam Therrell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

She is alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions of 'Watchman,'.

– Tonja Carter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the mid-1950s, I completed a novel called' Go Set a Watchman,' it features the character known as Scout as an adult woman, and I thought it a pretty decent effort. My editor, who was taken by the flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel( what became' To Kill a Mockingbird') from the point of view of the young Scout.

– Harper Lee

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The existence of' Go Set a Watchman' was unknown until recently, and its discovery is an extraordinary gift to the many readers and fans of' To Kill a Mockingbird,' reading in many ways like a sequel to Harper Lee's classic novel, it is a compelling and ultimately moving narrative about a father and a daughter's relationship, and the life of a small Alabama town living through the racial tensions of the 1950s.

– Jonathan Burnham

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

– Tallulah Bankhead

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The government (is) extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases.

– Josiah Stamp, Attibuted to Sir Josiah Stamp (1849 - 1941) HM Collector of Inland Revenue.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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