alert - use in sentences

Object

  • occupant: A smoke alarm alerted the occupants to the fire which gave them valuable time to get out of the house safely.
  • motorist: The public can be trained to operate the SID, which alerts motorists if they are going too fast.
  • reader: Well it's all sorted now thanks to alert reader Simon Pritchard, maintainer of the excellent SPN pages.

Converse of object

  • vibrate: In these situations, switch the ring tone off and use the vibrate alert instead.
  • reuse: Yours Sincerely, [ Your Sign ] [ Your Name ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are reusing this alert, please cite the source.
  • trigger: Please check the procedures whenever you wish to trigger an alert.
  • stay: The answer is caffeine - the world's favorite way to stay alert.

Adjective modifier

  • hair-trigger: Other nuclear weapons states could be motivated to go on to hair-trigger alert through fear of a strike by the USA.
  • audible: Of course if you are over the speed limit you will get a full audible alert including voice warnings.
  • pandemic: Should the WHO change the level of their global pandemic alert, the FCO will update travel advice accordingly.
  • red: Would people actually want to watch a game of red alert 2 on the TV?

Modifies a noun

  • notification: All you get is a phish alert email notification.

Used with adjective complement

  • vibrate: Polyphonic ring tones, infra red port for connectivity & vibrate alert are just a few of the other features to be included.

Noun used with modifier

  • bebe: To his file may look like bebe alert at type of starting.
  • email: Take advantage of our free email alert on your listed artists!
  • theft: Datatool, the UK's biggest manufacturer of electronic security for motorcycles, have developed a theft text alert designed specifically for bikes.
  • flood: At Magude, the river has been well above flood alert level for more than a month.

Used with why or when

  • when: Safety cameras: Receive and report alerts when there are safety cameras coming up, fixed or mobile.

Preposition: for

  • pickpocket: Safety be alert for pickpockets when visiting Acapulco, especially at night around the busy bar areas.
  • mutagenicity: It had been proposed to extend TTC to carcinogenicity, but with criteria to exclude chemicals with certain structural alerts for mutagenicity and TCDD.

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