Thesaurus / on the alert
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synonyms for on the alert
- alive
- astir
- attentive
- careful
- heedful
- insomniac
- insomnious
- observant
- on guard
- on the lookout
- on the qui vive
- sleepless
- unsleeping
- vigilant
- waking
- wary
- watchful
- wide-awake
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How to use on the alert in a sentence
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSIt was Carmena, every nerve of her loyal nature on the alert to baffle this pursuer of Alessandro and Ramona.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONYou never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYMr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSI drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRThen, his hand resting on the handle of the cab-door, this expression suddenly changed to one of alert suspicion.
DOPESAX ROHMERHe is small, alert, brimful of jokes and of years; seventy they say, but he neither looks it nor acts it.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONBut his eyes and ears were alert, and he was the first to hear the advent of a large body of horses along the main road.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYThe almost lazy naturalness and simplicity faded gradually out of it, revealing the alert and seductive woman of the world.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSHis perception was still exceptionally alert, its acuteness left over, apparently, from the earlier days of pain and jealousy.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODWORDS RELATED TO ON THE ALERT
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.