On-the-alert Sentence Examples

Besides, he was eternally on the alert.

It would put nations on the alert.

Mill could now feel that his main work was accomplished; he remained, however, on the alert for opportunities of useful influence, and pressed on with hardly diminished enthusiasm in his search for useful truth.

He returned to the mainland at the head of 200 convicts, and committed further excesses in the Terra di Lavoro; but the French troops were everywhere on the alert to capture him and he had to take refuge in the woods of Lenola.

The herd never feeds without having a sentinel posted on some prominence to give notice of the approach of danger; which is done by stamping on the ground with the forefeet, and uttering a shrill whistling note, thus putting the entire herd on the alert.

But the Commune and the Jacobin Club were on the alert.

The Directory, then, was in a minority in the country, and had to be ever on the alert against faction; all possible methods seemed legitimate, and during two years appeared Struggle successful.

Always on the alert for crime, he got his tip-offs from the police station where he worked as the mild mannered janitor.

Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?

When you feel threatened in some way (physically, mentally, or emotionally), your bodies go on the alert.

Concerned and attentive parents and school counselors should be on the alert for indications of possible gang membership in at-risk youth.

These latter, like the colonists in the American Far West, had to be constantly on the alert against the attacks of their troublesome neighbours, and they accordingly organized themselves in semi-military fashion.

Remember, no one knows your dog better than you do, so when you notice changes in his condition, be on the alert and take him to your vet for a check up.