What is "triggered"

Usage examples of "triggered".

His investigators made the inevitable slip finally and triggered a violent mindblock reaction.

One especially persistent machine took advantage of the interlude to score three hits on his back, which triggered the audible alarm, and pushed his shield to the very edge.

Spartan forced himself to ignore the artificial comet, locked onto the target, and triggered the rocket.

Marine crossed the deck to the point where the guard stood, told him to take a break, took one last look around, and triggered a grenade.

Chief heard machinery whir, figured he had triggered a sensor, and waited for the lift to arrive.

Noise from the guys breaking in must have triggered those agent instincts and woken me.

No matter, Nimor smiled, swallowed, triggered a reaction in his lungs, and exhaled a cloud of billowing, viscous shadows that nearly filled the whole of the cavern.

Interspersed among all of the various types of wards were a series of spell traps, killing spells, and alarms that would be triggered by the disruption of a ward.

The spell traps set in the anti-scrying wards that surrounded his own offices, if triggered, would trap the soul of the would-be scryer or drive him mad.

The name of the pass triggered some old memory in her, as though she had once read of it during her studies in House Melarn, but the particulars escaped her.

Spell traps lurked within the network, killing spells that would be triggered by the breach or inartful dispelling of a ward.

The giant troll held out a clawed hand, touched the gate, and triggered the remaining symbol.

He pulled out one of his wands, triggered its dweomer, and examined the line of the master ward.

He triggered the innate ability of his kind to teleport and disappeared in a blink.

With fewer attached to him, he triggered the levitation magic inherent in his brooch and went airborne.