Synonym: attentive, lively, nimble, on the job, prompt, ready, watchful, dull, slow, torpid. Similar words: dealer, ruler, clerk, killer, gallery, clergy, hitler, bowler. Meaning: [ə'lɜːt] n. 1. condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action 2. a warning serves to make you more alert to danger 3. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger. v. warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness. adj. 1. very attentive or observant 2. mentally responsive 3. not unconscious; especially having become conscious 4. (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive.
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181. I often caught the glint in his eye as he kept ever alert, staring at my face.
182. Unless I am alert and purposefully listening for them, they do not enter my consciousness.
183. The big defender's low drive from close range was blocked and then cleared by the alert Severin.
184. The second effort was another wonderfully alert piece of rugby.
185. Continual clashes of this type should alert parents to the fact that this approach is not useful with their child.
186. Postal facilities and other government offices around the country were warned of the attempted bombings, and were put on security alert.
187. The orchestral accompaniment her was again alert, matching the pianist's skill in fine style.
188. Each Mouse Alert system comprises a network of up to 360 strategically placed infra-red electronic sensor boxes.
189. An alert pediatrician has an excellent opportunity to nurture this.
190. He was a well-cared-for man of sixty, with thick silver eyebrows that hung over alert eyes.
191. Mr. Zimmer is still alert, despite his age and the frailty of his body.
192. All hospitals in the area were put on alert to receive casualties.
193. As he retraced his steps of the past day avoiding streets and roads,[sentencedict.com] he stayed alert to the sounds around him.
194. She was unusually alert, for her health had deteriorated in the brief time since the upset of Theda's near-dismissal.
195. The security alert, involving five hundred people, cost ten thousand pounds.
196. Alert Asleep A nutcase Attackers are always on the lookout for a potential victim, some one who will succumb easily.
197. Even many of the civilians in Charleston, which lay three miles across the bay from Sumter, were alert and anxious.
198. Hospital workers once alert for the sound became inured to it, like city dwellers to the sound of sirens.
199. Then their wedding night in a luxury hotel was cut short at 6am - because of a fire alert.
200. Realistic gardeners encourage this diversity while remaining alert to early symptoms of disturbance.
201. Alphanumerical display to alert cashier when to insert vouchers. 10.
202. Some, though, cause changes that can be selected by an alert breeder.
203. She owes her life to an alert farmer, who spotted her car in a ditch and called the emergency services.
204. The public eye, too, is alert for misdemeanour in this situation above all others.
205. Some of the other children were sitting up, alert now, as they caught the drift of what he was saying. Sentencedict.com
206. You have to get it for yourself, by updating your skills constantly and staying alert to new opportunities.
207. Since most babies wake at dawn, parents will find it is a time when babies are most playful and alert.
208. It has a range of sounds and frequencies to alert other monkeys to danger.
209. If nothing was heard from us, then the shore station would alert the rescue authorities.
210. There are various symptoms that should alert educators that some form of abuse or neglect is taking place.