What is "alerted"

Usage examples of "alerted".

I should have alerted the colony as soon as we arrived in the system, and the hell with any consequences.

The rest of the Tampy empire, clearly alerted to the threat, throwing everything they had left into the Kialinninni system in a desperate effort to defend their corral.

To ensure confirmation of factual material it would be useful for the authorities, when they have been properly alerted, to have access to witnesses.

By the time the AAnn were alerted to the unexpected insurrection in their midst, it was too late.

Apparently some internal warning system had alerted the creature that a predator was stalking.

The soft murmur of voices in the distance alerted Byron and Antonietta to the others walking in the maze.

Other villagers, alerted by the horn call, hurried up as torches ringed her.

Because of its unnatural proportions he did not notice the initial activity, and had to be alerted to the change by the Teacher.

He whirled once, swiftly, panic causing his heart to race, for there in the closeness of the engineering spaces his fully alerted senses had given him a false signal of movement where there was only vacuum, and space-discolored bulkheads and stripped-down machinery.

He saw the village on the optics screen just after the computer had alerted him.