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

However, she said she would be watchful that he follows through with the commitments of his strategic plan.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

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 chances of more explosive violent eruptions were low, but residents still should be watchful for falling rocks, mudslide and pyroclastic flow, said Tsuyoshi Nakatsuji, a JMA official in charge of volcano watch.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 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