alarm bell

Example Sentences

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Though this hasn’t yet reached the scale of a pandemic, it’s essentially an alarm bell for any country that values human life.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

Her husband telling her to give up her job is an alarm bell.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

"Niscemi is another alarm bell... we must respond by changing our habits" and "choosing not to build in certain ways and in certain places".

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

I’ve been guilty of this as well: not ringing the alarm bell with sufficient urgency.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2025

It was no longer a small alarm bell that was ring­ing in my head—they were big bells now, like the ones we heard from Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, not far from the zoo.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel