alertly
Example Sentences
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And catcher Will Smith alertly threw to third, where Laureano was hung out to dry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025
But Yip alertly grabs her first chance to reverse the game’s flow after 29.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
The 16-1 longshot broke alertly and settled in second place behind General Partner until midway on the far turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
Arsenal recovered and went close when Frida Maanum's powerful strike was beaten over the crossbar by Laws, and substitute Victoria Pelova's close-range strike was alertly blocked by Gemma Bonner.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2023
The man at the check-in desk looked at our tickets to Atlanta and our packs and said—quite alertly, I thought, for a person wearing a shortsleeve shirt in winter—“You fellows hiking the Appalachian Trail?”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
