How to Use being watched in a Sentence

being watched

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  • You’re being watched, and not in a creepy way.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The feeling of being watched lingers.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The case is being watched closely throughout the region.
    — Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Emmanuel looked surprised by the push, but then noticed that he was being watched and composed himself.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Three baby eagles who’ve been growing up live on a webcam being watched across the world are in need of some names.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
  • For some around me, being watched was certainly not a pejorative but the intent of their attire.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
  • Now, her son is being watched over by an independent caretaker whom the family knows.
    — Jessica Ma, Dallas Morning News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The patient should be in the hospital, being watched by an infectious disease doctor.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • There apparently was a time when Kody Brown's lifestyle choices were being watched by the law.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But citizens and courts are now deciding what price to put on Americans’ freedom to move without being watched.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Kaylee Goncalves also felt as though she was being watched and stalked in the weeks before she was murdered alongside two of her roommates and one roommate's boyfriend.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The demands of the role arrived at a moment when Grande was already accustomed to being watched — and judged — from every angle.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Jan. 2026
  • That denial triggered a lawsuit that’s reportedly being watched by cities and developers around the state.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The mere existence of such a network, proponents say, would give would-be criminals pause, knowing there’s nowhere to run without being watched.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Fox 4 reported that Cash and his brother were being watched by a family friend when the kidnapping happened.
    — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Santiago was being watched by his brother, but went into the backyard with another child without telling anyone.
    — CBS News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Three areas are being watched in the Atlantic basin as of August 12, 2026.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The companies that break through will be the ones that make these products genuinely useful without making everyone nearby feel as if they are being watched.
    — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • That case is being watched by national media organizations as it’s being appealed.
    — David A. Lieb, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • These special beings unite to try and discover their true evolutionary purpose while being watched and hunted by a dark group called the Whispers.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Derek Blasberg For Mortimer and her cohort, the awareness that they were being watched and ranked gave going out an extra frisson.
    — Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 17 May 2023
  • It is being watched nationally as a potential bellwether for 2026.
    — Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The structure put in place appeared to incentivize prosecutors to try and tamp down on key metrics that were being watched – refusal rates of cases and pre-trial detentions.
    — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Sometimes, this means sticking her tongue out at the experience of constantly being watched, her every mood and appearance scrutinized by someone else.
    — Peter C. Baker, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
  • It's being watched by politicians across the state and around the nation as an early indicator of where the Republican Party and its voters stand right now.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, the convent’s nine bookable guest rooms are more akin to sleeping over at your grandmother’s house, swaddling you in a familiar, matronly feeling of being watched over and cared for from a distance.
    — Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Elmhurst Police Department received numerous reports of occasions of young girls being watched and followed by a man while leaving school for the day, the release said.
    — Pioneer Press Staff, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023
  • But social-evaluative threat — being watched, judged, and evaluated by others — causes vagal withdrawal.
    — Amy Cuddy, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • When there is an incident involving the police, such as an arrest or a traffic stop, police officers should assume they are being watched by their body cameras, which could then be inspected by their superiors.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The tournament is the only thing that could compete with the Super Bowl in terms of gambling, with 32 games being played on the court and each of them being watched by millions all over the country.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026

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