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How to use watchman in a sentence

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When no one answered, they broke in and searched the building, only to find a watchman sleeping at his post.
It was then privately-owned and I suppose letting him doss there saved them paying for a separate night watchman.
The council consists of the headman, priest, village watchman, and four or five elders.
Based in Chicago, he was employed as a night watchman in a cold storage depot, being supplied with a gun.
The watchman phoned the emergency services and other colleagues after the alarm activated.
Only, there are these boys studying in there, this watchman spending the night in there.
She immediately turned her attention towards the entrance to find a being that was not the security watchman.
Receiving a look from the watchman the gatekeeper knew the postman felt the same.
The watchman who was working the second shift said he came early to relieve the first.
It was planned that the third engineer should remain on board throughout the period of lay-up as sole watchman.
His first night on the job the old night watchman gives him a tour, showing Martin the rounds he must make.
To illustrate, she tells the story of the night watchman given to practical jokes.
Although the father works as night watchman of an office building, he has no job security.
The watchman from the previous night caught my eyes and I knew that brushing it off as a simple misunderstanding wasn't a possibility.
You see during the night the watchman kind of maybe fell asleep and some raiders stole the carriage.
And he was well served by his staff, who included a gardener, a water-carrier, a dhobi, and a watchman.
On one occasion he was discovered by the night watchman surrounded by neat piles of bits and pieces of a film projector.
After several minutes, he heard the watchman approach, mumbling a song under his breath, then hove into view, his lantern preceding him.
Alain Crombecque was indeed an insatiable scout of artistic territories, an indefatigable watchman.
Who could be a better observer than the greengrocer by the mosque or the hospital night watchman?
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Examples from Classical Literature
On a bet, that's the lad who wore the chauffeur's cap and beaned the night watchman.
The rainbow, or bridge of Bifrost, which connected the two regions, was guarded by the faithful watchman Heimdall.
Wait, corruptly Weight, now used only of a Christmas minstrel, was once a watchman.
The incessant blowing of a trumpet or horn similar to that of the tally-ho notifies the watchman of the approach of boats.
He could see even better in the night than in the daytime, so he was a fine watchman.
An ancient watchman was dozing in a sort of sentry box, but he did not wake.
The watchman of this secret chamber was an illiterate, deaf and dumb peasant.
In fact, one watchman in Kolomna saw with his own eyes the apparition come from behind a house.
And a watchman also came and reported that the triton had been slain by a boy.
At this time I belonged to the 'Magna Charter' steamer, and was watchman for the night.
It seemed, at first, little better than his old job as watchman and checker.
Far down at the other end of the gallery they could hear the watchman coming.
You, who are watchman on the walls of Zion, must lead off, and the people will follow.
Heimdal the watchman, astonished at the sight, had let this maiden warrior pass him upon the Rainbow Bridge.
The watchman thanked him and went to the register office, where he found he was going in the wrong direction and returned.
The first corner I turned, I came plump upon one of our slaves, snooping around with a watchman.
I was watchman that night on board the 'Magna Charter' steamer.
Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern.
Bonhomme Michel was the old watchman and factotum of the monastery.
Yes, we may so ill-use our bodies that the watchman sleeps at his post!
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