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Tourists and anyone else who dared come to the place would have to circumnavigate snipers perched in watchtowers, booby traps, and roaming guard dogs.
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 3 Sep. 2025
Swans glide across Lake Hallstatt, medieval watchtowers rise over Rothenburg’s cobbled lanes, and thunderous waterfalls crash into the Atlantic—2025’s most beautiful villages are quietly spellbinding.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, Vishnu heads to a watchtower and Sukhbir sets off in a boat with a backup plan if the others fail to detonate the explosives from inside.
—Time, 13 Aug. 2025
Many have been in the same family for centuries and originally served as watchtowers to protect against invaders.
—Aileen Weintraub, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 3 Sep. 2025
Swans glide across Lake Hallstatt, medieval watchtowers rise over Rothenburg’s cobbled lanes, and thunderous waterfalls crash into the Atlantic—2025’s most beautiful villages are quietly spellbinding.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, Vishnu heads to a watchtower and Sukhbir sets off in a boat with a backup plan if the others fail to detonate the explosives from inside.
—Time, 13 Aug. 2025
Many have been in the same family for centuries and originally served as watchtowers to protect against invaders.
—Aileen Weintraub, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for watchtower
Recent Examples of Synonyms for watchtower
tower
Noun
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Cell tower data placed his phone inside Israel near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the sites where Hamas and its supporters carried out a brutal massacre.—
Greg Norman , Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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This mass is lifted and lowered frequently within a vertical elevator core or a container tower.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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