Synonyms

1. alarm

Sentence Examples

1. Not after having spent the whole of Thursday in a state of high alert, anticipating the return of the henchman.
2. Every communicator comes fitted with an alert button.
3. He was awake and alert, but pain twisted his face.
4. When I found myself alert again, I caught wind of his change in topics on the stage.
5. Paranoia kicks in, all my senses alert, and my heart beats that much faster.
6. The morning guard had sent an alert that all novices were to arrive clad in guard uniform ready for another search of the Passages.
7. In fact, now I looked closer, I could tell he was only feigning casualness, and his eyes were open, alert.
8. At least going out on patrol snapped me back onto full alert.
9. She appeared more composed and alert than she had the previous night, though her eyes were red-rimmed and bloodshot, her face and lips colorless.
10. When a man came crawling through the hole made by the removed planking at the back of the empty stall, followed quickly by a second man, Catherine was instantly alert.