alerted
Example Sentences
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Around 5:20 p.m., officials were alerted to a Cessna plane that caught fire when it crash-landed onto one of three airstrips at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The company said it alerted the collection agency in question as well as the credit bureaus to the mistake.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
The police spokesman told AFP earlier that authorities did not know the extent of the damage but said they had "alerted people who are staying near the riverside to relocate".
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
A garlicky smell once alerted him to the presence of arsenic in sugar, while the spill of a concentrated solution cut through clothing “like the blow of a scimitar.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Pet Bulene’s new taxi was parked in front, for Pet had been alerted the night before to take the Williams girls to the morning train for San Francisco.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
