tocsin

Example Sentences

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Still, few poems are more famous than “The Raven” with its dolorous tocsin, “Nevermore.”

From Washington Post

All over Europe and the United States, political scientists were sounding the tocsin for any balanced, values-based politics.

From Salon

It blazed deep red for a moment and then dwindled into a patch of gray smoke, but it was a signal as clear as a tocsin in the night.

From Literature

These statistics should prompt all rationalists to sound the proverbial tocsin with unrelenting fury.

From Salon

Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, the public health and scientific communities sounded their tocsins against a background of regulatory and political crickets.

From Salon