alarm
Example Sentences
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"The scary thing is that there was nothing in that training that would have raised alarm bells for me personally," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
Not necessarily, I suspect, due to the near-extinction of the alarm clock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
But it does feel like Justice Jackson is out there at the top of the mountain ringing a very loud alarm bell to say: This is the play.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
Cinematographer Meteor Cheung doesn’t need to do much more than park his camera on a tripod and pan it side to side, occasionally looking down in alarm like a librarian peering over her glasses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
At Volk Field in Wisconsin the wrong alarm sounded.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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