Sentence examples for sense alert from inspiring English sources

Jacob Riis, the great chronicler of the New York underclass, described them as orphans and runaways who lived rough, played craps and slept "with at least one eye open, and every sense alert to the approach of danger".

A sixth sense alerts me anytime I veer within a three-block radius of a bakery offering tangy country loaves with mahogany crusts.

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Basic common sense alerts us to the fact that we're getting played, but the generic laws of media politesse prevent us from saying otherwise.

We stood silently, heads tilted, senses alert, waiting for the bird to speak again.

The thing glimpsed out of the corner of the eye; the serendipitous happening when you're not going anywhere, and not expecting anything, your senses alert to the moment; an open window through which marches the story you will finally tell when friends ask, "How was your trip?" The net, that delicate silk or nylon funnel, swooshes through the world, catching one, missing nine.

For a long time, I couldn't pass that intersection without tensing, my senses alert.

On a visit to Tirana several days ago, I drove into the swirling chaos with all my senses alert, relieved that the rental car came with insurance.

The lack of technology helps me keep all my senses alert to every little sign she gives me".

You get a heightened sense of alert, waiting continuously for it to happen.

"We're always on a heightened sense of alert, we're aware that there could potentially be danger to ourselves or to the mosques.