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watchtower

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Recent Examples of watchtower Inside Albufera Natural Park, this watchtower is a limestone promontory that gives views across paddy fields. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 June 2026 This tiny Bavarian town has a 1,000-year-old castle, a 700-year-old watchtower, and a mayor in office for just a few days who's facing one of the town's biggest crises in its history. — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 16 May 2026 In Paro, Tiger's Nest (the country's signature hike) is a quick drive away, as is the National Museum of Bhutan, housed inside a 17th-century watchtower. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026 In 2019, Scio refashioned the 48-room property, which includes a centuries-old, unfinished watchtower, into a stylish resort with modern sensibilities. — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for watchtower

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In Laguna Beach, canopies — limited in size to 8 feet wide and 6 feet high — are only permitted in line with or behind lifeguard towers on Main Beach and the southernmost section of Aliso Beach.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Last September a new museum opened in Miami’s oldest skyscraper, a Mediterranean Revival building from 1925 modeled after the majestic Giralda cathedral tower in Seville, Spain.

— Ada Ferrer, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026

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