keep watch

idiom

: to watch to make sure that no one is coming

She kept watch outside while the others robbed the bank.

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Officials said staffing levels mean park officials often rely on the public to also keep watch over resources within park boundaries. —CBS News, 15 Apr. 2024

Air travelers will want to keep watch on the latest trouble facing the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. —Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024

Police sometimes park outside the homes and keep watch overnight. —James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Mar. 2024

German shepherds keep watch, and an armed soldier patrols the river by boat. —Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024

The best way to know for certain is to keep watch and try to find the creature at work. —Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024

January and February are the best months to keep watch for bald eagles, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources says. —Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 25 Jan. 2024

Warring gangs would keep watch from rooftops, sometimes shooting indiscriminately, wielding such control that even blood relatives divided by the barrier wouldn’t acknowledge one another on the street or while riding the same bus home from work. —Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2024

But the strategy of locking up products, which is cheaper for them than hiring more staff to keep watch throughout a store, has backfired. —Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024