How to Use watchtower in a Sentence

watchtower

noun
  • The old fortress model, with its walls, moats and watchtowers, is dead.
    — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The watchtower can serve as a guest house, an office or a studio.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • The store will also be shaped like a medieval watchtower, so uh, look out for that.
    — Dami Lee, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2018
  • One video showed a pair of uniformed men climbing onto a watchtower.
    — Josef Federman, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
  • Her bones would grow old, and she would be buried somewhere beneath the floodlights and the watchtowers.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Its watchtowers are crenelated and the wall itself is as thick as 12 feet in some places.
    — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 4 July 2019
  • The first will be a traditional hedge maze, with a watchtower.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2017
  • Its four floors consist of a basement and three living spaces, with the watchtower at the very top bearing the light.
    — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Across the street is a stretch of the wall, complete with death strip and watchtower, and poignant memorials to those shot trying to flee.
    — Alison Smale, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
  • The conductor’s cabin is just above, accessed via a tiny staircase, like a watchtower or a tree house.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Here came another watchtower, this one with soldiers in it surrounded by oodles of barbed wire.
    — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 24 June 2024
  • In other words, the Super Friends' watchtower will be crowded.
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The prison is also ringed by multiple electric fences and 19 watchtowers.
    — David Culver, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
  • At the end of the road stands the barrier wall that fences off the refugee camp, and behind it, a concrete Israeli watchtower.
    — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Settlers soon installed a camera on a watchtower on the edge of Shilo, about 60 feet from his home.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The path finally flattened at the bottom of a watchtower covered on one side with steel scaffolding.
    — Erin Tan, NBC news, 13 May 2026
  • An Auschwitz watchtower is visible from the pool’s waterslide, peeking above the wall.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • State regulators have built the watchtower.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • The watchtower, as this wing of the palace is known, was also a perfect vantage point for surveying his subjects on the open plain beneath its windows.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The blast gutted a historic 1886 fire watchtower and the school opposite.
    — Tim Judah, The New York Review of Books, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The watchtower, lens and prism survived, but the turning system, with fuel lines, pulleys and cables need to be cleaned and likely replaced.
    — Richard Kurin, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Those who died were believed to be taking selfies in the rain on the top of Amer Fort's watchtower, the outlet reported.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
  • The coastal trail to the lighthouse at Senetosa passes Genoese strongholds, threshing floors, and watchtowers.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2025
  • Among ancient ruins are the stone outline of an early Christian church, Roman baths and a watchtower.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • On Monday, amid barren trees, a Greek guard sat in a watchtower, making sure no people or dinghies enter the water.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Pack a lunch, as there are no restaurants or hotels on this island, just a dutiful watchtower, a few seasonal digs, and the peaceful sounds of nature.
    — Jessica Benavides Canepa, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Mr Murthy built 11 watchtowers across the park, from which guards look out for the splotches of red light that poachers use to attract animals at night.
    — The Economist, 20 Dec. 2017
  • From the top of the watchtower at Fordson High School, metro Detroit can be seen in all directions, for miles.
    — Hasan Dudar, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2018
  • Today, the Royal Heritage Museum is housed in the watchtower at the fortress.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2022
  • It was built in the 17th century by the khan of Khiva and is surrounded by fortified walls and watchtowers.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025

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