How to Use "Monitor" with Example Sentences

monitor (n): someone who watches or supervises that things are being done correctly; a machine that records and checks that things are being done correctly; a computer or television screen

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Used with verbs:

"The security monitor showed nothing."
(showed, displayed, detected)

"The computer monitor is flickering."
(be + flickering be + beeping)

Used with adjectives:

"He is the new hall monitor."
(hall, class)

"He needs a heart monitor."
(heart, baby, oxygen)

"We bought a new color monitor."
(color, flat-screen, computer, TV, television, digital, video)

Used with prepositions:

"I could see her on the security monitor."
(on)

monitor (v): to watch or supervise that things are being done correctly

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Used with verbs:

"They are continuing to monitor the traffic."
(be + continuing)

Used with nouns:

"They monitored the election carefully."
(election, calls, effectiveness, performance)

"They are monitoring the situation closely."
(situation, pollution, quality, conditions)

"I have been monitoring your progress."
(progress, progression)

"The doctor is monitoring my health."
(health, heartbeat, activity)

"They monitor the traffic electronically."
(traffic, level)

"We are monitoring the impact on the environment."
(impact, effect)

Used with adverbs:

"The machine electronically monitors the level of oxygen."
(electronically, automatically, properly, effectively)

"We continuously monitor their progress."
(continuously, carefully, routinely, constantly, continually, periodically)

"His parents strictly monitor his school work."
(strictly, closely, regularly)

Used with prepositions:

"We will continue to monitor the area for activity."
(for)