Example sentences for: watchlist

How can you use “watchlist” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After the department designated Sudan a state sponsor of terrorism in 1993, it put Bin Ladin on its TIPOFF watchlist, a move that might have prevented his getting a visa had he tried to enter the United States.

  • By the late 1990s, State had created a worldwide, real-time electronic database of visa, law enforcement, and watchlist information, the core of the post-9/11 border screening systems.

  • By 1998, 97 suspected terrorists had been denied admission at U.S. ports of entry because of the watchlist.

  • False identities are used by terrorists to avoid being detected on a watchlist.

  • Border Patrol agents were still using manual typewriters; inspectors at ports of entry were using a paper watchlist; the asylum and other benefits systems did not effectively deter fraudulent applicants.


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