bells

Example Sentences

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The people filling up trucks, trains, planes and ships with jet fuel, diesel or fuel oil are ringing alarm bells.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

But the alarm bells are ringing within OpenAI’s offices too, which have been locked in “code red” mode since December.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

The sector bears watching, but it may not be time to ring recession alarm bells just yet.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

But a second-consecutive season without silverware would perhaps raise alarm bells.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

At midnight she was in her cozy bed quilts when the temple bells began to chime.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr