Examples of “watchman” in a Sentence

noun A person employed to guard a building or area, especially at night.

• In 1972, a night watchman patrolling a hotel-office complex noticed that the basement garage door had been taped open and, attributing this to the carelessness of a maintenance worker earlier that day, peeled the tape off. — Laura Miller, Imagine (2004)
• Watchmen are stationed continuously at each end of the bridge, and the main spans are patrolled twice during the night. — H. A. Vallance, On Foot Across the Forth Bridge (1950)
• The night watchman made his rounds every hour.