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Example sentences for "watchword"

Lexicographically close words:
watchmaking; watchman; watchmen; watcht; watchtower; watchwords; wate; water; waterborne; waterbuck
  1. All His life His watchword was, “The Son of Man came to minister.

  2. What to do we often wonder, As we seek some watchword true, Lo, the answer God has given, What would Jesus do?

  3. All the world for Jesus My prayer shall be, And my watchword ever, Himself for me.

  4. Well to suffer is divine; Pass the watchword down the line, Pass the countersign: "Endure.

  5. Thy name and watchword o'er this land I hear in every breeze that stirs, And round a thousand altars stand Thy banded party worshippers.

  6. Agreement in the use of a common watchword had masked as it seems a real divergence of meaning and purpose.

  7. Endurance is the watchword of the poem and the watchword of our republic.

  8. All down the Middle Ages the watchword of every monastic revival had been, "Back to the Founder's rules.

  9. When our party proclaimed the watchword of Subbotniks and Voskresniks (Communist Saturdays and Sundays), the revolutionary idealism of the proletariat found for itself a striking expression in the shape of voluntary labor.

  10. It was those same workers who, under the watchword of peace, later laid down their lives on the Soviet fronts.

  11. The national idea, under the watchword of which the Third Estate rose to power, found in the imperialist war its rebirth in the watchword of national defence.

  12. The militarization of labor has more than once been put forward as a watchword and realized in separate branches of economic life in the bourgeois countries, both in the West and in Russia under Tsarism.

  13. The watchword of peace undoubtedly played an enormous part in our struggle; but precisely because it was directed against the imperialist war.

  14. Members sprang up everywhere, agents went to and fro, and the watchword was "Secresy.

  15. Knowing that Providence mingles the cup, And of all maxims the best, as the oldest, Is the true watchword of Never give up.

  16. Providence kindly has mingled the cup; And in all trials and troubles, bethink you, The watchword of life must be, Never give up!

  17. The watchword for the night was "Philadelphia.

  18. The refrain was simple and repeated itself, yet had dramatic force and lingered in one's memory, the musical call of the watchword for the Camp Fire Girls.

  19. It seems to me she has given us too much of the first and last of your watchword already and has too little of the middle thing left in consequence.

  20. Quieta movere, hitherto the watchword of unwisdom, is this science's maxim.

  21. Religion cannot therefore be the watchword of a progressive humanity; neither the religion of the past nor the religion that is to be looked for in the future, but ethics" (Jodl, ibid.

  22. Here we have the frankly admitted hostility against progress, education, and science--it is the watchword of the Papacy.

  23. Can we in our great struggle for liberty and right adopt any other watchword than this?

  24. When Cromwell's men went out to win the victory at Winceby Fight, their watchword was "Religion.

  25. Footnote 412: It has been said by several writers, and among them by Pennant, that the district in London called Soho derived its name from the watchword of Monmouth's army at Sedgemoor.

  26. This pointed sentence was fast circulated through town and country, and was soon the watchword of the whole Tory party.

  27. For sums above 20 florins, the depositor, in case he has no watchword must prove his own identity.

  28. If the Depositor has forgotten his watchword he can at any Receiving Office desire the issuing of a request to make it known to him anew.

  29. If the depositor already has a watchword in connection with his deposit book that watchword is to be inserted.

  30. The watchword chosen by the depositor must be added to the Notice.

  31. Each man was furnished with the camp countersign as well as a special watchword by which they could know each other.

  32. One by one the men gathered at dusk, recognized each other by the watchword and sat down in the brush back of the boulder to wait.

  33. After various experiences of victory and discomfiture, the Homoousia of the Son and of the Spirit was at last affirmed and became the watchword of inviolable orthodoxy.

  34. The watchword is the complete restoration of the status quo ante.

  35. Of the Twentieth Century, industrial democracy is the watchword, even as political democracy was the watchword of the two centuries that preceded it.

  36. As might be expected, a man whose watchword is, "thorough" immediately got a list of those committees, and lost no time in hunting up the chairmen and the various available members thereof.

  37. Mr. Humphrey Crewe might have had, with King Charles, the watchword "Thorough.

  38. This watchword is the motto of "the national newspaper.

  39. Now all was changed, with the coming of a man whose watchword was "Slavery must be destroyed; liberty must be preserved.

  40. In 1871 the Commune expired under volleys of grapeshot, and yet the watchword in France to-day is "the Free Commune.

  41. Though at first persecuted and derided, they became the watchword for a whole century of slow evolution.

  42. The Revolution was drowned in blood, and, nevertheless, representative government became the watchword of Europe.

  43. It was only natural, therefore, that the struggle should have become a highly embittered one, and that at times, in the heat of it, the party whose watchword was a hatred of fanaticism should have grown itself fanatical.

  44. Comprehension' might be taken as the watchword of the Elizabethans; Racine's was 'concentration'.

  45. Thus the four leaders cast their watchword like firebrands among the throngs, and the blaze spread tumultuously.

  46. Domandum est Corpus; the body must be tamed; this had been their watchword for twelve hundred years.

  47. After a peal of laughter, that it was a cordial to hear, and after venting his watchword three times, he turned short grave, and told Gerard Dusseldorf was no place for them.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watchword" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    byword; catchword; clarion; conscription; countersign; device; epigraph; epithet; exhortation; inscription; levy; mobilization; motto; muster; rally; recruitment; shibboleth; slogan; symbol; tessera; token; watchword; word