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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Could that have been avoided by greater vigilance on set?
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Still, many people have long since lost their appetite for vigilance.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Assuredly, the nuclear forces of the United States and Russia, ever at the ready, are at a heightened state of vigilance.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • Despite the vigilance, at least nine videos with Christchurch footage appeared on Gab, another fringe site, in 2021, according to the review by The Times.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • This is, in other words, hardly a moment to decrease our vigilance.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The world for both of these characters is a battlefield, and any relaxation of vigilance leaves them with an exposed flank.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Greater vigilance by lifeguards the next summer reduced the number of crashes to three, but the number shot back up to 21 last summer, Gartland said.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • Deep-learning neural networks don’t negate the need for human vigilance; in fact, the opposite is true.
    — Wai Chee Dimock, Scientific American, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Lifting the public health measures does not mean lifting the foot off the pedal of pandemic vigilance.
    — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2022
  • For other local leaders, the numbers show a need for continued vigilance against hate in the region.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Yet France has maintained strict vigilance over its language.
    — Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 31 May 2022
  • These parents know this and are not interested in being talked out of their vigilance, not for anyone.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The federal government bulletin comes as the NYPD warned this week that poll workers could be targets and urged vigilance.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Ugandan officials have been urging vigilance in the wake of a string of bomb explosions in recent weeks.
    — Fox News, 16 Nov. 2021

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