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How to use watcher in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun

Watcher means someone who observes something closely for professional reasons, such as an analyst or pundit. Example: “There’s nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.”

Examples of watcher by meaning

nounA kind of angel appointed to watch over the human realm, in particular one of those who became fallen angels and begot...

  • the Book of Watchers

More sentences with watcher

  • There’s nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.From the entry blow
  • How many watchers on FA do you need to be a popufur?2016 September 15, u/BennyCrobat, “What counts as a popufur?”, in r/Furry, Reddit. From the entry popufur
  • To begin with, bird watchers are often more eager to hit the road than their nonbirding colleagues.2009 March 17, Liz Galst, “On Business, but Checking Out the Local Airborne Fauna”, in New York Times. From the entry nonbirding
  • Prime time on Philippine television has become the time of "Koreanovelas,” said one media watcher.2006, Ronald Meinardus, Liberal Times in the Philippines: Reflections on Politics, Society and the Role of the Media, page 190. From the entry Koreanovela
  • Users are no longer passive watchers on appointment TV with schedules fixed by TV stations.2002, Hari Om Srivastava, Interactive TV Technology and Markets, page 100. From the entry appointment TV
  • Vatican watchers have already anointed the Honduran prelate papabile or “popeable.”2001 February 20, May Ying Welsh, “Latin Cardinals hint at Church's future”, in CNN. From the entry papabile
  • She winked pertly back at him, proving for all time that she was not a watcher.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry pertly
  • Our watchers took post on the crest, looking out over the harvested plains to the Hejaz Railway.1926, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 105, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, published 1936, page 571. From the entry take post
  • Shrek watcher spotted on my flight cross-country.2022 May 14, @_michaeltcarter, X. From the entry Shrekkie
  • So, this final challenge is for the readers of stories, the watchers of television news, the scrollers of online media.2021, Bernadine Jones, Elections and TV News in South Africa: Desperately Seeking Depth, page 233. From the entry scroller
  • Regular Bank of England watchers have been treated to two vignettes of fin-de-siècle Carneyism in Threadneedle Street in recent days.2019 December 22, Russell Lynch, “The exit of Mark Carney is a welcome chance to change the tone up top”, in Chris Evans, editor, The…. From the entry Carneyism
  • Am I some deep-sea snake-monster that thou, thou grimsome watcher, watch me even when I swallow my spittle?2010, Tyler Blanski, Clay Eyes. From the entry grimsome
  • But now, Venus Express, a European spaceship, is revealing enough bizarrities to keep a TV weather watcher babbling till dawn.2009, David J. Tenenbaum, Terry Devitt, The Why Files: The Science Behind the News, Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry bizarrity
  • A touch of truthache essentials, lest sharper drama too soon becloak our stage, and weary our watchers of our play."2007, Jack Womack, Elvissey. From the entry becloak
  • The clock technique is a very helpful way for one bird watcher to direct others to a hard-to-spot perched bird.1997, Bill Thompson, Bird watching for dummies. From the entry o'clock
  • Although I have often opposed William Safire's political views, I have generally regarded him as a clever word watcher.1978 November 12, Corinna Marsh, “Letters TO THE EDITOR”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry farfetchedly
  • Madness grew in the eyes of the capering votaress and was reflected in the eyes of the watchers.1931, Robert E. Howard, The Black Stone. From the entry votaress
  • The watchers knew already that the door was fastened and looked for the unknown to produce a key.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry scrunch
  • Sootily outlined with a dense fringe, his eyes caught the attention of many debate watchers who wondered if Vance was into guyliner.2024 October 3, Katie Berohn, Kathleen Hou, “But Really, Is JD Vance Wearing Eyeliner?”, in Elle. From the entry guyliner
  • Good news for sky watchers and selenophiles, tonight’s full moon is set to be the biggest and brightest of the year, according to NASA.2019 February 19, Wilder Davies, “Tonight's Super Snow Moon Will Be the Biggest Supermoon of 2019. Here's How to Watch”, in Time, archived…. From the entry selenophile
  • Did the watchers retain a folk memory that they themselves resulted from a mating of different types: a black human and a pale Neanderthal?2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 186. From the entry folk memory
  • Although STEVE has been documented by amateur night sky watchers for decades, it is an exciting new upper atmospheric phenomenon for the scientific community.2018, "On the Origin of STEVE: Particle Precipitation or Ionospheric Skyglow?", Geophysical Research Letters, B. Gallardo‐Lacourt; J.…. From the entry steve
  • Her brother, said she, was the watcher over this particular part of the Whitstable fishing-ground, beyond which he was the champion winkle-picker of the neighbourhood!1908, W. Percival Westell, chapter 6, in The Story of the Sea and the Seashore, London: Robert Culley, page 199. From the entry winkle-picker
  • For industry watchers, Kamatan needed no greater testimony than Sekibo's and Odili's for his administration of the council as Executive Chairman, knowing the great bond between these two Riverians.2005, Business & Maritime West Africa, volume 3, number 2. From the entry riverian
  • This "who watches the watchers" problem seems especially acute in the case of the "mutual funds plan" advocated by a number of observers of the Eastern European situation.1996, George K. Yarrow, Piotr Jasinski, Privatization: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, page 107. From the entry who watches the watchers
  • Most industry watchers believe IBM will build on its relationship with Floating Point Systems, Inc. to develop some sort of supercomputer-like attached processor for IBM mainframes.1985 July 15, Computerworld. From the entry supercomputerlike
  • The next thing the watchers saw was the laird struggling up the far bank and casting his coat from him, so that he rode in his sark.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry sark
  • Suddenly, those watchers – and millions of others around the globe – were startled by news of a superbolide, or super bright meteor, above the region of Chelyabinsk in Russia.2016 February 15, Deborah Byrd, “Chelyabinsk meteor mystery 3 years later”, in earthsky.org, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2020. From the entry superbolide
  • They heard her rouse the sleeping servant, and with her enter the kitchen; then the noise of a fire being lighted and the fountain being filled came to the watchers.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry fountain

Meaning of watcher

  1. noun Someone who observes something closely for professional reasons, such as an analyst or pundit.
  2. noun A political representative aligned with a candidate sent to observe elections to report on irregularities. A scrutineer.
  3. noun Someone who keeps vigil.

Full definition of watcher

Questions about watcher in a sentence

How do you use watcher in a sentence?
Watcher is used as a noun. For example: “There’s nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.”
What is a short sentence with watcher?
“the Book of Watchers”
What does watcher mean?
Watcher means someone who observes something closely for professional reasons, such as an analyst or pundit.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: watcher (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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