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Example sentences for "vigilant"

Lexicographically close words:
vife; vifs; vigesimal; vigil; vigilance; vigilantes; vigilantly; vigilants; vigilia; vigils
  1. The innocent green things of the Grove were vigilant guardians indeed.

  2. He heard the terrified cry "Dheb Tyn-Dall"--and then the vigilant Guardians got him.

  3. While this was being done, the ever vigilant Father of Evil took advantage of his opportunity.

  4. The duties of the police posts were to keep an incessant and vigilant look-out, and to patrol the banks, keeping touch with each other.

  5. The outposts are certain to be more vigilant behind us.

  6. All the others kept vigilant watch about the wagons.

  7. It seemed to him that lately the watch in the castle had become more vigilant than ever.

  8. A little later, Corsini, escorted by his vigilant bodyguard, took his way to the mean quarter of the town where Ivan was lodged.

  9. How could a man in his position be of any serious use, a man who had to skulk in obscure corners, lest he drew upon himself the too vigilant attention of the police?

  10. He is very astute on the business side, has worked his Press well, and always maintains a vigilant claque.

  11. Dalton, who was vigilant as brave, had previously thrown his boat-cloak over Springall, so that he might not be recognised, and handed him a cutlass and pistol.

  12. With you to smile on me, I can scarcely be a coward," he replied, in a low tone so as not to reach the vigilant ears of the duenna.

  13. The military gentlemen are vigilant as Argus, and, though pitying the poor Prince, must be rigorous as Rhadamanthus.

  14. An echo of its sound of cord and creaking roller reached her faintly from elsewhere, with a muffled cough, and telling her that her own activity was being duplicated by the ever-vigilant shadow, struck pain across her mouth.

  15. He was about forty years of age; hardy, prompt, and sagacious; and had all the Gothic nobles been equally vigilant and shrewd in their defense, the banner of Islam would never have triumphed over the land.

  16. As soon as he could be spared from Castile and Leon, he hastened to Cordova, to supply the loss the frontier had sustained in the person of his vigilant lieutenant.

  17. While, therefore, the two officers made vigilant dispositions to check any movement on the part of the soldiery, they let loose the blind fury of the populace by publishing the fatal mandate.

  18. Hast thou been vigilant in frequently pausing, in the hurry and career of the day, to see who thou art endeavoring to serve: whether thy Maker or thyself?

  19. Rudolph lay beside them, apparently asleep; but the slumber of a faithful watch-dog is always light, and Rodolph was one of the most vigilant of his race.

  20. The greater part of manufacturers could not afford to retail their own goods so cheap as a vigilant and active shopkeeper, whose sole business it was to buy them by wholesale and to retail them again.

  21. All along that vast front hundreds and hundreds of pickets and riflemen on either side were keeping a vigilant watch.

  22. The Union cavalry, always vigilant now, had intercepted Stuart in the afternoon and had given him battle, just when the combat of the second day had begun at Gettysburg.

  23. Although he stopped at times for longer looks, he made a wide circuit about the Confederate camp, and he was satisfied that Stuart, vigilant and daring though he might be, was not expecting an enemy.

  24. And such vigilant expectation will be accompanied with patience.

  25. I do not find, however, any great use made of this instrument till it fell into the hand of a learned and vigilant priest or minister, (for he frequently wrote himself both the one and the other) who was some time Vicar of Bray.

  26. They are as vigilant as I know who, to attend persons on their death-beds, and for purposes much alike.

  27. The wing of his house, in which space was set apart for the society, was itself, in its precautions against fire, one worthy of a vigilant and enlightened philosopher.

  28. When a particle of grit becomes lodged under the stone there will be a rolling, jarring motion, easy for even an unpracticed hand to detect, provided vigilant attention is being directed upon the work.

  29. Harmony of design, balance of proportions, sympathetic formation of the various parts, demand vigilant maintenance.

  30. Carried on watchfully and with a vigilant regard for details, it cannot well fail to increase paint shop profits.

  31. Mrs. Wilson herself could not be more vigilant in examining the candidates for Emily's favors than was the dowager Lady Chatterton in behalf of her daughter.

  32. Elijah, Jonah, David, and Paul were brought to the altar of repentence through the vigilant energy of the hidden forces within.

  33. Still men go on doubting this true and loving subjective intelligence that is constantly wooing for entrance into the soul and is ever vigilant in warning the material life of approaching evils.

  34. Again the vigilant Mrs. Hunter, uneasy that Mara and Clancy were not within the range of her vision, appeared upon the scene.

  35. He also returned to the drawing-room, and was vigilant for an opportunity.

  36. But the end of all things is near: be ye therefore sober-minded, and vigilant in prayers.

  37. Be vigilant and strengthen the things which remain, which are ready to die; for I have not found thy works complete before God.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vigilant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alert; alive; armed; awake; briefed; careful; cautious; coached; conscious; covering; custodial; defensive; equipped; groomed; guarded; guardian; guarding; informed; knowing; loaded; mature; mindful; mobilized; nimble; observant; parental; planned; prearranged; prepared; preventive; primed; prompt; prophylactic; protective; provided; provident; prudent; ready; ripe; sheltering; shielding; sleepless; tutelary; unskillful; vigilant; wary; watchful