alarm bell
Example Sentences
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But speaking to the media after meeting Sir Chris on Friday, Murphy sounded an alarm bell over the future of the Stormont institutions.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
There is an alarm bell going off in consumer credit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
He strategically delayed his alarm bell until his Bharatiya Janata Party won a landmark election in West Bengal state, India’s fourth-most populous.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
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
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
