false alarm

Example Sentences

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Chronic pain, however, continues even after the injury has healed, creating a kind of false alarm that can last for weeks, months, or years.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

And though the Aukus review was a scare it was ultimately a false alarm.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025

I see some information about cops scrambling, but an editor says it’s a false alarm and not to worry about it.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2025

On the bright side, he said, “there’s no problem of having a false alarm or being wrong,” because the predictions won’t affect people on land.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

These orders were written up and posted on the tents, and the Boss let it be known that he might at any time give a false alarm as a drill.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong