fire bell
Example Sentences
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Pontypandy's most famous resident actually heard his fire bell chime on Welsh language TV first as Sam Tan.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2023
Firefighters there are often rushing out before the fire bell sounds, attuned to listen for a faint click that happens a split-second before the emergency lights switch on.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2022
“This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror,” the aging Jefferson admitted.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
This is the issue that had troubled Thomas Jefferson, as he once put it, “like a fire bell in the night”, and it becomes Obama’s starting point.
From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2016
More than fifteen years earlier, an aging Thomas Jefferson had said the dispute over slavery was like “a fire bell in the night...filled me with terror.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
