How to Use vigilance in a Sentence

vigilance

noun
Definition of vigilancenext
Synonyms for vigilancenext
  • The bulletin urged vigilance ahead of the midterm elections.
    — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • For me, the vigilance of keeping that voice out was the hardest part.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Aug. 2024
  • His vigilance paid off in the form of a city housing voucher.
    — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Too much vigilance, on the other hand, will not serve you.
    — Emily Barasch, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2021
  • That speaks well of the man footing the bill, Barry Diller, who mixed largesse with vigilance.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 June 2021
  • But none of that vigilance mattered when my son slipped off that couch.
    — Damon Young, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
  • Still, extra vigilance becomes part of the learning curve on the ship, too.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The constant vigilance may help keep the nests safe from predators like the brown skua bird, which feeds on penguin eggs and chicks.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There is nothing like a duty of vigilance law in the United States.
    — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Even with all that vigilance, a man ended his life with a gun on the shooting range in Marcon’s store in 2017.
    — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • But there is a sense of vigilance and preparation for the worst-case scenario.
    — Ben Makuch, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The challenge through these three acts is how to maintain vigilance.
    — Marin Gjaja, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Could that have been avoided by greater vigilance on set?
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • At a certain point, though, vigilance brings its own risks.
    — Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 3 Dec. 2020
  • At the same time, many people, even some of the most cautious, have lost their appetite for vigilance, and rules have grown harder to keep track of.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2022
  • But one false positive doesn’t lessen the need for vigilance.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • For some people in lines of work that require them to visit a stranger’s home unannounced, vigilance is just part of job.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
  • For those who call the mountains of Ait Mahmoud home, vigilance is paramount.
    — Madjid Serrah, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In a 23-minute speech, Mr. Biden said the U.S. was operating on a war footing and urged the weary public to maintain vigilance against the virus.
    — Sabrina Siddiqui, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Aside from the constant vigilance staffed lookouts provide, there is a romance to the work itself.
    — Hannah Kingsley-Ma, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Thanks to luck and ever-increasing vigilance of the heavens, the whole world was watching.
    — Dennis Overbye New York Times, Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Of course, in today’s times, this can only be managed with some painful cuts and with constant vigilance.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Jan. 2022
  • When the first person yawns, that cue prompts everybody else to do the same, raising the group’s overall vigilance and safety.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • But the second year of the pandemic just might — with vigilance, prudence and a bit of luck — be vastly different from the first.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Still, many people have long since lost their appetite for vigilance.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Be mindful that the work of democracy is hard, and that vigilance and courage are required to maintain our freedoms.
    — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
  • The red stripe is for valor, the white stripe for purity and the blue stripe for justice, vigilance and permanency.
    — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In New York City, police said houses of worship would be the focus of extra vigilance.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 May 2022
  • Really watch your kids in the water Constant vigilance can go a long way when children are in the pool, Muckey said.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 1 July 2024
  • But there is good reason to believe that, if elected, Harris could be pushed to combine increasing vigilance at the border with more policies that would provide relief to those in desperate need.
    — The Editors, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024

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