alert
Example Sentences
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New amber alerts for snow have been issued by forecasters, covering much of northern Scotland, starting on Sunday evening.
From BBC
Although temperatures will slowly lift through the rest of this week, cold health alerts from the UK Health Security Agency remain in place across all of England until Friday.
From BBC
Emergency services were alerted early Saturday that several high-voltage cables on a bridge near a power plant had gone up in flames.
From Barron's
The scratching alerts us to what will be increasingly vigorous attacks on the canvas surface—scraping, rubbing, incising fine lines—emphasizing the character of her paintings as objects, rather than representations.
Shetland was hit by the amber alert at midnight while it has been in force in parts of the north east, Highland, Perth and Kinross and Angus since midday on Friday.
From BBC
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