alarm
Example Sentences
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Her son sounded the alarm after his mother was arrested in Anniston, Alabama, earlier this month.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
“You want to get somebody’s attention really quick? Make the fire alarm go off in your spacecraft when you’re still about 80,000 miles from home,” Wiseman said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
It came from the subject himself, who responded not with alarm, but with a joke.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
Anthropic postponing the release of its new AI model Claude Mythos, said to be so skilled at coding it could be a wicked weapon for hackers, has encountered a mix of alarm and skepticism.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
He clawed at the pile of gold next to him as though he thought to strangle me with it, but then he shouted with alarm when he realized that he could not pick it up.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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