be watchful
Example Sentences
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Jordi Serra-Cobo warns that "the results should serve to take preventive measures and be watchful against possible transmission of the hepatitis E virus from wild boars to the citizens of the Barcelona metropolitan area."
From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024
Parents also received messages from school principals last week indicating that all was well to that point, but that everyone should be watchful for potential threats.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2023
If she chooses not to, DOJ should be watchful for the first opportunity to seek reassignment by the 11th Circuit.
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2023
The Coast Guard launched search and rescue crews Thursday afternoon and alerted nearby ships to be watchful.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022
But now I understand the gravity of what I was proposing— that a four-year-old child be watchful, prudent, and shrewd, that I curtail your happiness, that you submit to a loss of time.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
