fire alarm

Example Sentences

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“You want to get somebody’s attention really quick? Make the fire alarm go off in your spacecraft when you’re still about 80,000 miles from home,” Wiseman said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Sound-designed by David Gertsman, “undertone” is so quiet that a tea kettle sounds like a fire alarm.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Several residents have said they did not hear a fire alarm when the blaze broke out.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2025

All staff left the building beside the River Clyde when a fire alarm sounded at about 06:30.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2025

He ran the three blocks to Bruno Goll's drugstore, determined to do what no one else in the neighborhood had thought about doing: turn in a fire alarm.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy