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Definition of night watch in English: night watchnoun 1A period at night during which a person or group of people is stationed to look out for danger or trouble. a fight broke out during the lieutenant's night watch Example sentencesExamples - The crew on the night watch were busy and Arthur was unable to catch anyone's attention.
- During this protracted night watch, they employed a camera armed with an enhanced lens to achieve an advanced degree of magnification.
- That night he and I stood a night watch together.
- Jonas could never handle the night watch without falling asleep.
- On night watch, he dreamed up plots for stories, which he sold to magazines.
- The center of the new play is an amiably shiftless young man on the night watch as security guard at a generic high-rise.
- After doing a night watch on Knapp Hill, we drove as far as we could.
- The best bit was completing our night watch shift.
- I'm always anxious about the night watch over my dig.
- I just finished the 3am night watch, and I thought I'd sneak home for a couple of hours.
- 1.1 A person or group of people stationed to look out for danger or trouble at night.
he was the supervisor of a three-man night watch Example sentencesExamples - The nun was acting as night-watch.
- The night watch made their rounds, their armour rattling as they passed.
- Do you want me to assign more men to the night watch?
- The night watch is temporarily off duty.
- I asked the night watch captain if I could talk with him.
- I was visiting an NYPD precinct some years ago when the night watch stood inspection.
- We rely more on our own system, such as having a night watch to monitor the water level.
- This occurred so many times that they set up a special night watch to discover who was responsible for the vandalism.
- Residents were so frightened that they set up a night watch to try to catch the culprit.
- Chiefs of villages are told to form night watches.
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