Sentence examples for they became alert from inspiring English sources

This may explain why they became alert, but did not try to jump over the cage walls and run away when they saw the dog for the first time.

If a speeding car approaches, they become alert.

"When they wake up, I rub a dab of peppermint oil on their temples to help them become alert".

James's friends in London also became alert to how little his family actually knew about him, and how uneasy they might become at discovering in his letters what Anesko calls "his most distinctive qualities: his devastating sharpness of wit, his extravagant inventions of intimacy, his Rabelasian powers of innuendo".

They were not recruited on a specific day of their ICU stay, as patients woke up and became alert at different times.

Slowly, however, his aunt became alert to his presence.

Then, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Art, in Stockholm, he became alert to contemporary art, and studied techniques of Scandinavian wood design.

His imprisonment warned comedy off topical references, but the Roman audience became alert in applying ancient lines to modern situations and in demonstrating their feelings by appropriate clamour.

With it in mind, I became alert to the meaningful shifts of form and feeling from one tribal manner to the next.

A surprising tenderness pressed against my heart with such strength, it seemed very nearly like joy; and with unexpected sharpness I became alert not to the meaning, but the astonishment of human existence".

And perhaps it was because of the comically out-of-place articulation of this imputed identity that I became alert to all the other identities that were about to be loaded on him.