stand watch

How To Use stand watch In A Sentence

• He was prepared to stand watch and steer the ship for forty or fifty days or however long was necessary.
• Near the headwaters, there's a necklace of four soft-bottomed ponds where egrets stand watch on the shore and owls roost beneath bridges.
• He wanted John to stay over that night and stand watch while he, Scorch, opened the safe with something he called a jimmy! A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
• Two young mums pushing their children in front of them walk along the narrow pavement by the pub as we stand watching the traffic.
• On the roof, a series of large, stylized gargoyles stand watch over the structure.
• I stand Watching his stillness, like an iron nail Driven, flush to the head, Into a yew post.
• Then the crew, minus the few who were to stand watch, piled into the jolly boats to go ashore.
• The next day, all the men are roused to stand watch.
• Its bow was severely damaged, and 23 sailors were hurt too badly to stand watch as the vessel limped back to Guam.
• A few stand watching a brave soul with a karaoke machine belt out an off-key tune.