Example sentences for: alerted

How can you use “alerted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yet no one alerted the INS or the FBI to look for these individuals.

  • It certainly was last October, with a recession looming, but the rapid communications system in place today alerted the people who could do something about it, unlike the recession of '90-'91.

  • Colford writes in his biography that Howard has elevated "the final chapter in his war with NBC" to the "myth of the inventive radio personality clashing with the stuffed shirts of a mighty network," but goes on to record events that sound a lot like stuffed shirts clashing with Stern: Bob Rukeyser, NBC's director of corporate communications at the time, said that he alerted Grant Tinker, then chairman of NBC, to Stern's material, and that Tinker decided Stern had to go.

  • Gail Sheehy's Nov. 29 interview with Stone Phillips on NBC's Dateline alerted Chatterbox that the big scoop in Hillary's Choice , Sheehy's new psychobiography of the first lady, is that Hillary might have smoked some dope in college, but her ex-boyfriend isn't saying for sure .

  • He alerted his supervisor, who assigned another controller to assist him.


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