tocsin

Example Sentences

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All over Europe and the United States, political scientists were sounding the tocsin for any balanced, values-based politics.

From Salon

We have grabbed onto that great tocsin of American freedom and will not surrender it -- even if too many millions of white Americans have discarded it for cheaply made "MAGA" hats.

From Salon

These statistics should prompt all rationalists to sound the proverbial tocsin with unrelenting fury.

From Salon

Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, the public health and scientific communities sounded their tocsins against a background of regulatory and political crickets.

From Salon

These words sound down through the years, a tocsin awakening us to that most grievous of failures - the loss of nerve.

From BBC