watchtower

Example Sentences

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It is effectively a watchtower or control tower for all your data.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Suddenly the lines about needing a hermit in the woods as much as a preacher in the pulpit came so much more alive from the endless horizon atop a watchtower.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026

A watchtower on a hilltop, still painted in the colours of the Iranian flag, overlooks the base.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

The checkpoint gate is now bolted shut, eyed by armed Israeli guards in a watchtower nearby.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

Strange to think of a Red Army sentry on a barbed-wire watchtower shivering in this very same icy wind.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell