fire bell
Example Sentences
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Firefighters there are often rushing out before the fire bell sounds, attuned to listen for a faint click that happens a split-second before the emergency lights switch on.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2022
“This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror,” the aging Jefferson admitted.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
The firefighter from Pontypandy heard his fire bell chime for the first time on November 17, 1987 on Welsh TV channel S4C.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2017
This is the issue that had troubled Thomas Jefferson, as he once put it, “like a fire bell in the night”, and it becomes Obama’s starting point.
From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2016
It was almost louder than the fire bell.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
