watchfulness

Example Sentences

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Watchfulness against the Japanese government’s likely currency intervention will also remain high around the 160 threshold, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Walk through the north door of the Nebraska state capitol and you’ll see a motto carved in stone over the doorway: “The Salvation of the State is Watchfulness in the Citizen.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 18, 2017

Watchfulness is her defining trait, and Ms. Fanning can do more with her eyes than performers many times her age.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2010

The greatest Charity, therefore, and Compassion we can shew to our Fellow-Creatures, is an extraordinary Severity, and never-ceasing Watchfulness in a Government against the first Approaches of Dishonesty.

From An Enquiry into the Causes of the Frequent Executions at Tyburn (1725) by Mandeville, Bernard

Happy indeed it was for the Province that such a Man was at the Head of it, for it occasiond such a Jealousy & Watchfulness in the people as prevented their immediate & total Ruin.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 2 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo