watchfully

After batting watchfully in the early part of his innings, Stokes took 42 runs from the final 29 balls before he was dismissed, including three sixes.

Only when I stooped to read the label for one velvety red blossom — it was a cockscomb, Celosia “Dracula” — did I notice the knee-high, cast-foam black vulture that was sitting watchfully beside it.

I remember feeling perfectly safe during the dinner — I assumed, and later was told, that the two agents inside the house were supplemented by others lurking watchfully outside.

Buttler watchfully played out the spinner and raised his half century off 40 balls with four boundaries and two sixes.

And the trees in the wood behind the hill loomed so watchfully that it seemed he was not alone.