Night Watch, The

noun

1. a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.

Example Sentences

On the other side, they passed trees down to the “night watch,” the worker who guards the stand at the corner on 124th and prepares the newest load for the next day’s customers.

From Los Angeles Times

Subscribe to a national newspaper and go beyond the headlines into the substance of the main articles; subscribe to your local newspaper and read it thoroughly — in print, if possible; watch the top of “PBS NewsHour” every night; watch the first 15 minutes of the half-hour broadcast nightly news; tune in to a public-radio news broadcast; do a simple fact-check search when you hear conflicting claims.

From Washington Post

In the coming weeks, before it’s all over, we’ll endure a Long Night, watch the living battle the dead, straighten out which incest we like and which incest we don’t, and learn which witch’s pregnancy prophecies prove accurate.

From The New Yorker

Nearly 4 million viewers a night watch The O’Reilly Factor, which had $118.6m in ad dollars in the first nine months of 2016, according to Kantar Media.

From The Guardian

Only the position of The Night Watch, the "altarpiece" of the museum, according to Wim Pijbes, the museum's director since 2008, has remained the same.

From The Guardian