alarm

Example Sentences

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“Once they started having people in interim housing for nine months or a year, that should have rang some alarm bells, because that’s just not sustainable,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

What is driving alarm "is not as much the level of tariffs as it is the unilateralism," says Petros Mavroidis, a professor at Columbia Law School.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

To his alarm, police lights soon flashed through his bedroom window.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Moreover, fears of a shortage of helium have also raised alarm in the semiconductor industry.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Then the fire alarm went off and everyone’s heads popped up as the lights in the lab changed to flashing bright strobes.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste