How to Use alert in a Sentence

alert

1 of 3 adjective

• An alert guard stopped the robbers.
• An alert watchdog guarded the door.
• He was tired and had trouble staying alert while he was driving.
• She wasn't mentally alert enough to answer the questions.
• The earthquake was too small to trigger the alert system.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 15 Apr. 2023
• Stay alert and follow the flow to avoid most of your troubles.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
• After a 15-minute delay, the student was alert and able to walk out of the gym.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2023
• This will mute or unmute your phone’s ringer and alert tones.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
• Three more alert levels have been added to the coral reef alert system.
  — Elliana Hebert, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Kotb asked Bush Hager about her ability to get her kids to stay alert.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
• The alert skier veers to the right as the avalanche continues down the slope to avoid being caught up in the cascading snow, the video shows.
  — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2024
• Get ready to feel more alert, less rattled, and on top of your game in every aspect of life.
  — Jackie Lam, Women's Health, 20 Mar. 2023
• Seeing if a route is crash-prone means drivers can be more alert, or that seems to be Waze’s hope.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 7 Nov. 2023
• Time is on your side, and your mind is alert and ready for action when the right moment occurs.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
• And hikers must be alert to the danger of running into bears.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• In Manet’s, dated around 1878, the artist stands alert, eager-eyed, paintbrush poised.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• The release advises drivers to be alert, watch for signage and slow down in the work area.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2023
• Hanna is trying to stay alert and keep her friend out of danger.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
• The release advises drivers to be alert, keep an eye out for for signage and stay slow in the work area.
  — Caleb Wiegandt, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2023
• This can reduce the effectiveness of the program and lead to alert fatigue.
  — Rabiul Islam, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Law enforcement lauded the alert person who summoned them to the preschool.
  — Andrea Cambron, CNN, 24 May 2023
• Kuroda: When the mothers tried to put their sleepy babies to bed, more than one third of the infants became alert again.
  — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2023
• We're told the firefighter is stable and alert this morning.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2024
• In Ukraine, alert fatigue as the war drags on has made people less responsive to calls to shelter.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
• Bivens added that residents in the area should be alert, use caution and be aware of their surroundings.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 5 Sep. 2023
• But Bober said be alert that ticks can often be mistaken as moles or skin tags.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 16 July 2023
• The victims were alert and breathing when they were taken to a hospital.
  — David Aaro, ajc, 10 Sep. 2023
• The area is under an alert level 2, the highest alert category, now through the next 12 weeks.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• At the time, Martin said that one of the students was alert and interacting with members of their care team.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
• Walls work just fine when they are overseen by an alert garrison.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023

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alert

2 of 3 noun

• Medical officials have put out an alert to hospitals to look out for the virus.
• They sounded an alert when enemy planes were approaching the city.
• The government has issued a terrorism alert.
• To get the deal, travelers must sign up for an email alert at marineandlawn.com/black-friday-2023.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2023
• Heat alerts are back in full-effect across North Texas.
  — Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 18 July 2023
• The screaming rattled Flores and Heller, in their tent, enough to be on high alert.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
• But during the first few hours of the eruption, officials were on high alert.
  — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• The death notice arrived softly one Tuesday in April, to an email alert that chimed like a chapel bell.
  — Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• On the day of the call, Kluge’s situational awareness was on high alert.
  — John Riha, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• The alert would not be the first in California to address a specific group.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2023
• Today's top stories: 🚨Get free alerts when news breaks.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Feb. 2024
• For part of the night, much of the state was under severe thunderstorm and tornado alerts.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
• One cousin described hearing the alert and heading to a safe room in her house with her husband and children.
  — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
• Users should receive the alert, which will pop up on their phones, only once during the half-hour test, FEMA said.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The email, which looked to him like a fraud alert, directed him to what was ostensibly his bank’s sign-in page.
  — Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Japan’s yen hit a 10-month low against the dollar, putting traders on alert for more intervention by Tokyo.
  — WSJ, 6 Sep. 2023
• Nonetheless, always check with your airline about the status of your flight and sign up for text and email alerts, too.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2023
• For the latest alerts and updates on Amtrak service, check www.pacificsurfliner.com.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
• On July 18, smoke plumes drifted all the way to Atlanta, GA and 20 states now face air quality alerts.
  — Time, 19 July 2023
• Unfortunately these days the alerts come on our cell phones.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• The alert includes a way for users to find their representative and call their office.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 7 Mar. 2024
• One way to help reduce these vast volumes of alerts is to write more effective detections in the first place.
  — Ben Finke, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Colts’ cornerback Zaire Franklin knocked the football out of Bigsby’s hands and an alert Buckner scooped up the football and ran 26 yards for the score.
  — oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
• Across the country, about 100 million people are under heat alerts.
  — Mary Beth Gahan, New York Times, 18 July 2023
• Residents can sign up to receive email alerts when trails are closed due to excessive heat.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
• An active shooter alert went out to all school parents, Keast said, noting James Crumbley went home to check for the gun.
  — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2024
• Wind alerts are in effect for nearly 18 million people from Texas to North Dakota.
  — Taylor Ward, CNN, 6 Apr. 2024
• If an alert is sent, here are ways customers can conserve energy at home and reduce their gas bill.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• An air quality alert due to smoke from Canadian wildfires was in effect through the end of Friday.
  — Vivian La, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2023

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alert

3 of 3 verb

• The teacher alerted the students that tests would be given the next day.
• The governor alerted island residents that a hurricane was coming.
• Several neighbors alerted the authorities when they noticed strangers acting suspiciously.
• Make noise to alert bears to your presence and travel in groups.
  — CBS News, 3 Oct. 2023
• Those in the front of the group saw and heeded her warnings and alerted a man who was in the back of the pack, closer to the croc.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
• Price first heard about the incident last year, when one of the men in Unit 711 alerted him to it.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• In this case, the dog alerted on the trunk of Bourgeois’ car and the family’s basement.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• The corporal, did alert police about the crash and was injury-free.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 26 Oct. 2023
• The cut also alerted scientists to the fact that the eruption had disrupted the seafloor, which isn’t easy to spot.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
• Aircraft were alerted but were not needed to fight the fire, said Pascua.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
• That would alert drivers to possibly slow down or be on their guard to prevent a wreck.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
• Somebody alert the news stations, the masses need to know: 2Humpy is pretty much over.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 17 Nov. 2023
• Currently, there are three warning signs to alert there is a speed camera, with the last sign showing the rate of speed, Weiss said.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2023
• Alas, Liu’s spider-sense didn’t alert him to the insidious plot that was about to unfold.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
• Both coaches were alerted to the situation at the time.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• Cruise made no effort to alert the media to the dragging incident.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2024
• ShopRite has reached out to Price Plus club card customers who purchased this product to alert them to the recall, the company said.
  — Maria Morales, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023
• Automated emails alert your contacts and invite them to the site.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Oct. 2023
• The grocery store was alerted by one of their suppliers that the cookies may contain rocks.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2023
• Lachance said her daughter died running to call 911 to alert first responders.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2023
• When set just right on the counter, the vibrations would resonate through stone and lumber, alerting the whole room: An email has arrived!
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 7 July 2023
• Curry alerted the group to the police being behind them.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2023
• Wiz first discovered the access to the data on June 22 and alerted Microsoft.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2023
• Officers were alerted to the shooting at about 4 p.m. and arrived to find a man lying unconscious in the street.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
• However, just days before the shows, the event alerted ticket holders that Halsey had dropped out of the performances.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2023
• Kirby said that the U.S. alerted the Iraqi government prior to carrying out the strikes.
  — Tara Copp, TIME, 3 Feb. 2024
• The note instructed the flight attendant to alert the pilot and air traffic controllers but keep the threat from others aboard the plane, the documents said.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2023
• Bhimani alerted Brown whenever the police were patrolling the area.
  — Bernice Yeung, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
• The girl’s mother soon alerted the other parents and arrived at Meyden’s house to pick up her daughter.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
• The Milwaukee’s lookout, Dennis Harrington, saw the lights of the Hickox and alerted his captain.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024