Sentence examples for uses to alert from inspiring English sources

"Could we have one of those gizmos?" he said, pointing to the tricolor timing lights that the committee uses to alert speakers when their allotted time is finished.

Oztan has an entire section explaining how she makes her money, including an extensive index of tabs she uses to alert readers to the economics of everything she writes.

Obviously he has extraordinary psychic powers, which he occasionally uses to alert Bobby to the boy's future feelings for Carol, rescue him from a bat-wielding assailant and help in games of three-card monte.

Signals were used to alert inmates to abort assaults when other guards were in the area.

In the most recent earthquake, a new system of warnings was used to alert the population.

Some experts say YouTube, MySpace and the like should be used to alert teenagers to the consequences of risky behavior.

A code was used to alert the plateau to new arrivals, who were referred to as "stationery" or "books" to be delivered on specific days.

The color-coded system used to alert the nation about possible terrorist threats would be revamped under a bill that the House Homeland Security Committee will take up Wednesday.

Indeed, so many of them died in landslides and explosions that a special envelope was used to alert their families back home.

The technology is also being used to alert drowsy drivers, diagnose brain trauma, train machine operators and provide surgeons with "a third hand" to control robotic equipment.

"We used to alert our members by sending out an e-mail, when we were going to clip," Mr. Weisel said.