alarm
Example Sentences
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But a second-consecutive season without silverware would perhaps raise alarm bells.
From BBC
It did not raise any particular sense of alarm among staff at the agency responsible for managing outbreaks.
From BBC
Olfactory detectors like radon monitors or smoke alarms have existed for decades, but they mainly search for one danger only.
But when his arms had turned to water and he could chop no more, he saw with alarm that he’d only managed to cut down two spindly birch saplings and a puny little spruce.
From Literature
Well before the Iran War, Pentagon officials were alarmed at how low the U.S. weapons stockpiles were and urged weapons makers to increase missile production rates, as The Wall Street Journal reported.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
