watchtower

Example Sentences

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It is effectively a watchtower or control tower for all your data.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

A watchtower on a hilltop, still painted in the colours of the Iranian flag, overlooks the base.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

Settlers soon installed a camera on a watchtower on the edge of Shilo, about 60 feet from his home.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2024

It takes a while before we see the telltale signs: the camp watchtower, and later the flames blackening the sky.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023

The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin