Sentence examples for stood on alert from inspiring English sources
Dozens of soldiers with automatic rifles stood on alert around them.
In front of Notre-Dame or of the Eiffel Tower or near the Louvre, tourists took selfies as usual, as soldiers stood on alert patrol around them.
When there is a storm, he said, it is his wife who usually stands on alert.
Two years ago, because of an overdue power bill, the Russian national power company cut electricity to a strategic base where nuclear missiles stood on high alert, though the silos themselves did not lose power.
Even though police cars were parked discreetly at the end of her drive, and outside the complex, television trucks stood on high alert, Mrs. Galipeau's eyes never left her daughter, who was playing 10 feet away in a small patio enclosed behind cement walls and a high wooden fence.
Some 40,000 people stood on the waterfront, alerted to the disaster by a stream of radio messages from Carpathia and other ships.
Dumbo and Super Dumbo aircraft (B-17s and B-29s rigged for air-sea rescue) stood by, on alert.
Neighbors said they were alerted to the blaze by the mother's screams as she stood on the fire escape cradling one of the children.
A half-woken stoat peeped scaredly from its lair in a drystone wall and a skinny old doe stood alert and watchful on a limestone outcrop".
