trigger

In a sentence

Six example sentences with trigger, each labelled with its topic.

• Cold air alone can trigger an asthma attack, so she keeps an inhaler in the pocket of every coat.

  Medicine

• A drop below the agreed floor will trigger a margin call, and the broker sells without waiting for approval.

  Finance

• Warm ocean water triggered the coral bleaching that divers recorded along forty miles of the outer reef.

  Environment

• A failed login from a new country triggers an alert, and the account locks until the owner confirms by phone.

  Technology

• The smell of chalk dust can trigger a flood of classroom memories that the person had not thought about for decades.

  Psychology

• A change of ownership triggers the buyout clause, giving the remaining partners ninety days to purchase the shares.

  Law

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains trigger. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• accompany
• depressed
• acknowledge
• percent
• proceedings
• monitor
• income
• formula
• interaction
• academy
• furthermore
• ignore