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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241. Music publishing companies are always alert to the possibility of signing new songwriting talent.
242. Could the mayor of Vienna please have some fire fighters kept on alert around the parliament building, just in case?
243. When we find kids circumventing them, we alert our members and try to get the information out as quickly as possible.
244. Passengers should try to stay alert at all times, and report any suspicious packages to the police immediately.
245. Thus, we respect a worthy opponent in the sense that we are alert to his strength.
246. He had been the largest of the brood, always alert and playing.
247. The alert and attentive reader, however, usually brings critical attention to what is being read and reacts in some way.
248. The overnight explosion not only destroyed the chapel but also sparked a security alert in Dartmouth, Devon.
249. Worse, nothing in the data itself would alert us to this fact.
250. Stopped Thousands of residents were ordered to stay indoors and close all windows before the alert was finally called off.
251. In the case of ongoing work stress, after a while this combat alert begins to take its toll.
252. It is First Alert that has targeted low concentrations and caused most of the nuisance alarms, he said.
253. Several families were evacuated from their homes in Ulster last night after a bomb alert.
254. But in postoperative testing, both children were visually alert with full eye movements, although each showed intermittent strabismus.
255. But working in this sort of hospital you are always aware of the potential and you have to be alert.
256. Several Devon roads were closed with the Otter and Dart rivers on red flood alert.
257. We have been on a very high state of alert.
258. Bailey said that if even one of the fuel rods leaks, Palo Verde officials would put the plant on alert.
259. I will feel more alert ... more wide-awake ... more energetic.
260. He should mention it, alert her in their mutual interest.
261. Thefts alert: Police are warning householders to beware of sneak thieves after a series of burglaries in Newton Aycliffe.
262. So my conclusion is that we blanked due to a combination of the bream being well fed and very alert to danger.
263. Local hospitals were taken off the alert for crash victims.
264. Images Street Image She's busy and alert, writing in her notebook, or studying a street map.
265. But I wish to alert him to a situation fraught with dangers,(www.Sentencedict.com) namely the position of black people in his country.
266. Simmons has so many irons in the fire some one should alert 911.
267. All I could do was frantically reach for my safety whistle and blow like crazy to alert the raft crew.
268. My choice had to be made with the greatest care and the most alert diagnostic skill.
269. Sorrel, asleep on the settee, suddenly became alert and looked expectantly in the direction of the kitchen.
270. Fabio, alert to fish her out the moment she slipped, sat on the bank and watched.