The coxswain pronounced a few words in his bizarre language, and no doubt he alerted his men to keep on their guard.
The two men held a quick exchange in their incomprehensible language, and either the chief officer had been alerted previously or he found the plan feasible, because he showed no surprise.
Captain Nemo alerted his companion to this hideous crustacean, which a swing of the rifle butt quickly brought down, and I watched the monster's horrible legs writhing in dreadful convulsions.
Nell has a hunch we're going to be alertedbefore so long.
Do all you want to do promptly, for when we arealerted no girl can leave the quarters.
Alerted to the odd display on the horizon in the darkness, Barninger telephoned Major Devereux, who replied that he also had seen it.
But working during the day was hazardous, he said, because noisy equipment prevented workmen from being alerted to the incoming planes in time for them to take cover.
Japanese service troops--especially the men of the 1st Shipping Engineers and the 1st Debarkation Unit--provided most of the initial opposition, but Matsuda had alerted his nearby infantry units to converge on the beachhead.
More than twenty geese swam on it, but the sentry they'd posted had become suspicious and had alerted the others.
Frosty alertedhimself only when he heard a sound he did not know.
Charles Gregory who had been previously alerted and then came in to take care of the wrist.
The doctor was alerted concerning his condition, but a decision was made for Todd to remain at home through the weekend.
We also decided to leave the door to the upstairs open; I'm frightened of noises sounding like gasps or snorts of air, as they remind me of the way in which I was alerted to Norm's predicament.
Once alertedto their actions, they are able to alter their behavior.
Common decency should have allowed my parents to be alerted before the rest of the world; their pain was needless, because it could have been avoided.
Owajima was alerted now, and field agents tended to have a rather violent reaction to someone stalking them for unknown purposes.
One alerted field agent would be bad enough; a police force of agent-equivalents .
He becomesalerted too, and necessity acts as a goad--a kind of trigger-mechanism.
There were armed and alerted landing-parties around the grid itself, of course, but the capital city of Dara lay open.
When you ordered all ships alerted for action, the Darians on each ship released panic gas.
The space admiral of Weald ordered his ships alerted for action.
Alerted by the sixth sense that every hill-man must possess, Kalus opened his eyes and remained perfectly still.
Alerted by the sound Kalus had woken, and was in no mood for the treatment he was about to receive from the wolf.
A now alerted and considerably paranoid BellSouth began searching switches right and left for signs of impropriety, in that hot summer of 1989.
Fry Guy had broken the case wide open and alerted telco security to the scope of the problem.
Now, I think we had better go in and tell Si, so that everyone will be alerted to the situation.
Rosenkrantz had alerted them to a message coming in from Syssoka.
When you ordered all ships alerted for action, the Darians on each ship released panic-gas.
The space-admiral of Weald ordered his ships alerted for action.
If the two of you were captured, the entire palace would bealerted before the rest of us could put a foot inside it.
If we can win our way into Vokal's palace and reach the quarters of Vokal himself before his guards are sufficiently alerted to interfere, the fight will be over before it begins.
It was in this fashion that the boy had sought to show his gratitude to Tharn, and in so doing had alerted the camp--and gotten himself captured in the bargain!
Did they scan sufficiently to identify anything, to be alerted by anything in any window, on the roof, or anyplace else?
Outside of the fact that everybody was alerted to this previous incident.
Did this building create, as you turned into Houston Street, any particular problem that would have alerted you one way or another?
Although patrols had encountered no Japanese east or south of the jungled perimeter up to the 24th, the Matanikau attempts had alerted everyone.
Alerted for its mission while it was at Guam, the Ichiki Detachment assault echelon, one battalion of 900 men, was transported to the Solomons on the only shipping available, six destroyers.
Alerted by patrols, the Marines now dug in along the Ilu River, often misnamed the Tenaru on Marine maps, were ready for Colonel Ichiki.
The presence of dogs on the line could promise the Marines there a night’s sleep, for they alerted their handlers when the enemy came near.
In the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, sector, Private Dale Fetzer, a dog handler assigned with his black Labrador Retriever alerted Company C.
We must act before they can be fully alerted and deployed.
She tightened her shield, feeling probes as the Sanctioner alerted the others.
Again that sixth sense of impending disaster, which is perhaps bred into some men, alerted Ross.
Ross glanced from the mike in the ceiling to the opposite wall and what he saw there made him sit up, with the instant response of an alerted fighter.
In other locations around the country military and civilian scientists should be alerted and instructed to use every piece of available equipment that could be used to track UFO's.
By April 1950 every person at White Sands was UFO-conscious, so one member of the camera crew grabbed a telephone headset, alerted the other crews, and told them to get pictures.
By this time one remaining F-86 had been alerted and was airborne toward Long Beach.
Alerted by this first chance to get a UFO to "run a measured course," the camera crews agreed to keep a sharper lookout.
They had fighters alerted on the Coast, when the scare first broke," I reminded him.
They wouldn't have Air Force pilots alerted to chase the things.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alerted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
