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    Use "alarm" in a sentence

    alarm example sentences

    alarm


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    alarms


    1. “Looks like the alarm on the door is standard, shouldn’t be a problem,” he said


    2. The superficial currents won’t last more than a minute, but it will be enough time for us to bypass the alarm and slip inside


    3. “The alarm!” Ackers yelled to the paper boy as soon as he figured it out


    4. “It is most likely giving me a thirty second delay to enter the proper code to let the computer and the alarm monitoring station know that I have returned home to the house that I live in


    5. Ackers turned his attention back to the alarm


    6. He approached the alarm keypad that was emitting the noise and inspected it from a distance


    7. He placed the box over the alarm keypad, completely covering it, and then started entering random number combinations on his own keypad


    8. He got a good look at the combination of numbers that he had just used to turn the alarm off


    9. I set the alarm without thinking last night so, when it goes off at the usual time, I wake just to lie in bed and wonder what I should do


    10. "I'd have had a loud alarm if it ran for even a millisecond unshielded unless most of the planet was between us

    11. He had set up an audible alarm on any signal from Narrulla's Tear


    12. He turns off the radio, waits a couple of seconds, turns the radio back on again, listens with a growing look of shock and alarm


    13. Ricci’s eyes grow wide with alarm, but he freezes with fear in front of the Mercedes


    14. She felt about the same as she had the day before, and she did remember setting her alarm for a backup last night


    15. Is there an alarm system at your house, Merrett?’


    16. Yes, I assured her that you have an up to date burglar alarm and man-eating rotweillers loose in the grounds


    17. I stand at the gates and watch her drive out just after ten, carefully closing them behind her and setting the alarm as Stephen told me to


    18. I tried to unravel time in some vain hope of stopping the days from ticking over into the new shift pattern, but the inevitable morning dawned with the usual sounds of boots on concrete, sliding locks and the dull metallic alarm of my breakfast tray being laid on the floor by my mattress


    19. A slight smile appeared as her lips parted; and then alarm spread across her face, she stopped suddenly as tho she was caught doing something she shouldn’t


    20. ‘If you are not back by mid morning tomorrow, I will raise the alarm

    21. He looks a bit wobbly to my eyes and although I daresay I couldn’t catch him if he fell over, at least I could raise the alarm


    22. I glanced at the clock just as its alarm bell sounded


    23. I silenced the alarm and turned on the shower, realising at once all the sadness and strangeness that lay waiting in the service


    24. Social services raised the alarm when one of their staff went missing, but no one considered it possible that two small children might have something to say on the matter


    25. Oreo took this opportunity to prance into the Hall and James’ eyes grew wide in alarm


    26. His face suddenly showed alarm, “Look out,” he shouted as he gutted one before it could complete its run at her


    27. beeped louder than a fire alarm everytime there was one


    28. “I’m pretty sure I would get an alarm if she re-entered the ship,” Ava said


    29. They were in the Library enjoying a game when the alarm went off


    30. “Ah, what is that,” Gordon asked when the alarm went off

    31. 'It's probably a false alarm


    32. ” The young technician turned and looked at the captain in alarm


    33. So I set my alarm to go off early and hit the road


    34. Ava had her alarm set for any news from Tung, no matter what time of the day it occurred


    35. Fingers crossed! Just as I was writing the above, the alarm went off in the House


    36. AM, who was asleep in her flat, woken by the noise and hit the linked alarm


    37. I don't know what has happened to me, but the changes with the pregnancy alarm me sometimes


    38. alarm while he worked out where he was and how he had got there


    39. The alarm is always switched off when the club is open


    40. was going on, since the sound of the alarm siren would have easily

    41. “It was only your alarm that saved the day,” he said quietly, “If


    42. ‘Not that way!’ cried Guzkat in alarm


    43. the midpoint, alarm trumpets sounded in the


    44. In the event, it was explained, the alarm was raised almost


    45. guard who raised the alarm, as well as the – then – Warden


    46. There was a cry of alarm from the direction of the causeway,


    47. Spelman, there was never a cause for any alarm on their part, nor did I do anything other than what anyone in my shoes would have done


    48. He is up on his knees in a second, leaning over her, staring into those bore hole pupils, pupils that have been shocked wider still by his sudden movement and alarm


    49. “What’s wrong, Mother?” he asked in alarm


    50. The alarm goes off raucously














































    1. The paper boy became slightly more alarmed the longer he stayed with Ackers


    2. If anything, the paper boy would have probably been less alarmed if he had stumbled upon a group of people wearing masks and trying to openly burglarize the house


    3. Her sister on the ground was worried they might have run it without the containment, but their instruments would have alarmed if they had done that and would still see it as a beacon now


    4. But they couldn't ignore the asteroid for long, in another Earth year at most, the natives will notice the direction it will emerge from its close encounter with Cynd and become alarmed


    5. alarmed, but it was still in control of its flight and therefore not


    6. Should they return to the mountain Jake? Kate was alarmed, are they in any danger?


    7. ’ I cried, alarmed that he should think I would be regretting our marriage


    8. Don’t be alarmed, it is a normal occurrence


    9. We should have been alarmed for this but I never would have suspected


    10. The two security guards behind Gordon were also alarmed

    11. “Then cheer me through the Paraclipse and do not be alarmed by anything you see


    12. A large yellow and black sign says that the door is alarmed but Shaun knows this is not true


    13. Guardian stood up straight, clearly alarmed that he was being


    14. “But I must bring it home, or my mother will die!” Li-en looked alarmed, and a flurry of whispers arose in the room


    15. was alarmed to find himself standing next to the Italian


    16. ‘Please don’t be alarmed


    17. She turned and was alarmed to


    18. Tom was alarmed by the thought that they might be asked to physically kill someone


    19. Her husband was alarmed, and asked: 'What is wrong, dear wife?'


    20. to face the wall, a little alarmed that he had been so

    21. She was growing positively alarmed by now


    22. The difficulties, accordingly, which the Bank of England, which the principal bankers in London, and which even the more prudent Scotch banks began, after a certain time, and when all of them had already gone too far, to make about discounting, not only alarmed, but enraged, in the highest degree, those projectors


    23. The late multiplication of banking companies in both parts of the united kingdom, an event by which many people have been much alarmed, instead of diminishing, increases the security of the public


    24. Father studied the smoke intently, but didn’t seem alarmed


    25. “Please don’t be alarmed, my woeful lady


    26. ‘Do not be alarmed, Torbin Lyndau


    27. ‘Please don't be alarmed, I’m not here to harm you


    28. He told her not to be alarmed, that he would help her


    29. The man said, ‘Please do not be alarmed, I am here to help you


    30. “Jesus, what happened?” I ran to Him, took Him in my arms, alarmed at His appearance

    31. ” I was truly alarmed not by what she had said for the thought had entered my head but by the pain she had suffered and the colour of her face the sheer effort it had taken to raise her self up like this


    32. The kitten sat up, alarmed


    33. alarmed that he would be president


    34. Mitzi herded his young to the front screen door, startling them into alarmed hysterics that sent them clawing up the screen as far as they could go


    35. This belief soon spread to the citizens of Chincha and everyone was alarmed and “on edge” about the


    36. His sense of her through the kigare was that she was focused, slightly frightened but more alarmed


    37. She spoke fluently this time, told Jimmy not to be nervous or alarmed as that might affect the immersion process


    38. There is no need to be alarmed since this is a collective symptom of a system's failure


    39. He felt strangely comforted by them all being there with him and Esther, but was also alarmed as he would have to manage them somehow


    40. Confused and alarmed, she tried to pull away, but Sicarius held her down

    41. Timmo, who looked very pale and alarmed


    42. "Ma cherie, what is it, whence hast thou come?" asked the good mother alarmed


    43. and he felt a little alarmed


    44. Alarmed by his cry Stelze came running, barking furiously at the kookaburras


    45. Alarmed, he looked down the ally for somewhere to run, but it ended in a high brick wall


    46. Few hours after the local police was alarmed the government ordered that Dunstable was to


    47. It had alarmed Brightness deeply therefore, when late one moon she heard a badger's footsteps approaching her sett


    48. Thomas was the first to spot the pair as they neared the entrance of the gorge and was alarmed to see Sarah coughing and waving her arms as William held a cloth to her forehead


    49. I became alarmed not knowing why I was hearing this but knowing


    50. Alarmed, he lifted his head, checking that Altef was still alive













































    1. She closed the airlock's doors and found they both still worked on the automatics, though the outer door's mechanism made alarming vibrations


    2. Her sole purpose in life seemed to be dedicated to looking down her nose at people, and nowhere was this alarming personality trait more obviously demonstrated than in her reaction to possible suitors


    3. Kelvin regretted his promise to let Alan keep his universe because his universe now attracted an alarming percentage of off-duty personnel


    4. this alarming personality trait more obviously demonstrated than in


    5. What would happen to whatever was in this OS when she did make it back? Could it spawn a copy over there, might she still be here even if she went back? Then an even more alarming thought struck her


    6. Today, one might see alarming things in the Church that do not


    7. What was also alarming was the frighteningly low level of activity in Victoria, half the veron space of her avatar


    8. there was nothing alarming in his presence


    9. His face was extremely elongated, and his forehead bulged to an alarming proportion


    10. If but one of those overgrown manufactures, which, by means either of bounties or of the monopoly of the home and colony markets, have been artificially raised up to any unnatural height, finds some small stop or interruption in its employment, it frequently occasions a mutiny and disorder alarming to government, and embarrassing even to the deliberations of the legislature

    11. The one in front darted towards him at an alarming rate


    12. Somehow the pod knew where he wanted to go, and it was taking him there at an alarming rate


    13. "Oh no!" He cried, alarming the others


    14. The lunar surface filled the view-screen at an alarming rate, its illuminated face causing the image to fade to a tolerable level


    15. “I spoke to him yesterday and he told us some rather alarming things…” Dorro let that hang there a moment


    16. While in Kumassi the number of sick swelled to rather an alarming extent, and the Medical Officers anxiously looked forward to the day the mud of Ashanti should be shaken off


    17. It was alarming, but those men were hundreds or thousands of miles away and a less immediate threat than the traitors in and near the Imperial Barracks


    18. The alarming increase in anti-social behavior, especially in our inner cities, is, by every historical standard, unprecedented


    19. immigration policies are compromising the quality of life in areas where poverty, congestion, disease, drugs, crime, substandard housing and decaying infrastructures are demoralizing (complex) social and cultural arrangements (and civility) as an alarming number of our citizens are feeling alienated from mainstream conventions that no longer seem to provide any meaning


    20. This not so extraordinary phenomenon, that seeks the path of least resistance, does not bode well for America‘s blue collar workers whose jobs are being systematically eliminated at alarming rates exceeding the market‘s ability to replace them, if such is its intent, which it is not, I feel

    21. Indifference to customary (religious) attitudes is a cause of grave concern; especially among practicing Christians and (Orthodox) Jews alike who perceive the gradual erosion of the underlying principles and teachings of proud (religious) traditions and its demoralizing effect on society; of Christians and Jews in name only who are routinely abandoning their churches and synagogues while shedding their religious customs and beliefs in alarming numbers to worship before the alter of the ―golden calf‖


    22. Sven bowled to me, granted it was an underhand throw, but that tennis ball still came towards me at an alarming speed


    23. He had slithered down the wall from the vent tunnel at an alarming rate, slamming into the ground with a breath-taking thump that had knocked him unconscious again


    24. History tells us it already happened that the terrorists used South African passports and there is other evidence such an alarming increases in Mosques in many of the Sub Saharan countries


    25. In the real world, it is men, if they may be properly called men, who are stalking and routinely beating up on defenseless spouses and girlfriends at an alarming rate


    26. “This is alarming,” the words were baldly stated


    27. Where are those weapons? Are they buried somewhere in Iraq? Are they in the hands of terrorists or hidden in Syria? In my opinion, at this point in time this last possibility is far more alarming than the worrisome question “why the intelligence was not more precise and exact”


    28. Land was fast running out, new factories gobbling up what little was left at an alarming rate


    29. Nye couldn’t begin to describe the delectable odour rising from the meat - only that it was making him salivate at an alarming rate


    30. “Yeah, well, it’s hotter in hell, right?” I said and Steve kicked himself back into motion trying to speak with an alarming sense of first-hand knowledge on the subject:

    31. I stood there motionless as a stone pillar, and I saw in that same slowed down vision Adele coming closer and closer at an alarming pace


    32. He had of course learned of the Procrastinator Militant’s blunder and even though second hand accounts rarely manage to do justice, he had exchanged knowing looks and smiles with the Arch-minister that had gone largely unnoticed by the Procrastinator Militant; a somewhat alarming fact if one would care to extrapolate the level of the Procastinators’ vigilance from the qualities apparent in its most senior member


    33. It as an alarming sight, as the kid, with years of book learning, and thousands of fantasy-missions under his belt, had never actually done this before, nor thought to practice any fantasy ground-handling


    34. The air thickened with alarming speed and the smell grew stronger; then he saw it appear over the crest, strange thin beams of light sprouting from what might have been a head of sorts: a glistening metal hulk glinted under the starlight, uniformly gray and unassumingly blocky, a rectangle slab larger than a man


    35. Suddenly he heard a strange sound like a whining coming from the Prosops, which broke his laughter and reverie with an alarming alacrity


    36. Institutional red bricks of the former Muse of Therapy were pushed to the west into a large pile and sold off at an alarming rate


    37. In her book Silent Spring Carson stated: “The most alarming part of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials


    38. Perhaps even more alarming is the possibility that they are from the police, although I presume they would arrest me immediately instead of following me


    39. siren atop the computers burst into an alarming wail, the


    40. women deciding to have abortions has risen to an alarming rate from fear of giving birth

    41. The factory clock whizzed by at an alarming rate, if his


    42. ” Her face was turning an alarming shade of red and her eyes were flashing with indignation


    43. I knew she was with child by fall and after my alarming excursions into Espanya and La France, I decided it wasn’t safe to bring her with me


    44. unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance


    45. By the time the EPA’s scientific report could be issued the tocsin had been sounded, the brigades of misinformation had been marshaled, and environmentalists on the warpath had embellished the data with alarming “facts” of their own


    46. What is even more alarming is that estimates forecast that


    47. Nonetheless, the last three days, before going to Hong Kong, were very troublesome and even alarming for Roger, in such a way that fear, inexorably overcame him


    48. While Robert’s condition disintegrated with alarming conse quences, Roger had to devote his attention to other matters as well


    49. years, put the soldier at risk of losing his farm, which began to happen at an alarming rate


    50. But to be honest, it is a clever sounding word invented by gurus that can make a subject more alarming












































    1. He stubs out his cigarette, straightens up, squints at the convoy, sees something that alarms him


    2. He wanted to set off several alarms already, but what they said next shocked him even more


    3. She probably had alarms, and more than likely Yellelle already knew she was here


    4. The stall warning alarm sounded ominously as other alarms sounded and the instrument panel lit up with flashing lights


    5. Then alarms went off - Red alert


    6. Fire alarms went off and security was


    7. After all, he appeared in her bedroom, in the subterranean compound, she couldn’t believe he was really there; no alarms had been set off


    8. perforated floor with an almighty crash, raising no dust, because there was no dust to raise, but setting off alarms on half a dozen machines


    9. Alarms bleated like wounded sheep,


    10. constant blare of the alarms and the shouted orders that came over the ship-com

    11. He could still hear the alarms, blaring incessantly, shrill voices that now seemed distant,


    12. “You tripped one of the magical alarms Arbitan set before—before


    13. Last year, alarms were sounded one hundred nineteen times, as opposed to only thirteen in 2009 and just three the previous year


    14. Over seventy-five percent of the alarms were triggered by small quantities of short-lived radioactive isotopes from the medical industry


    15. The alarms screeched through his room again and he screwed up his eyes in annoyance


    16. They were covered in grills but sometimes one of the children living in the Blue would wrest one off and drop rubbish down it, running away when the alarms sounded


    17. The main sound she heard was that of burglar alarms erupting into actions


    18. After setting up some alarms and warning bells, he went into his cabin


    19. It tells me practically nothing, I've left no provision for warnings or alarms, or a log to store them in


    20. If they encounter a match, they automatically trigger a real-time defense protocol that may include alarms, offensive responses, etc

    21. Ryan crossed next to the metal detectors making sure she didn’t set off any alarms


    22. It doesn’t help that the alarms sound at that exact moment, preventing me from saying anything else to him


    23. It was fancy with buttons, lights, and alarms but it never beat a good old paper calendar


    24. Her role was to wait at the bus stop conveniently located across the street, and watch for any signs of life, alarms going off or anything else


    25. I had no more time to think about it, as suddenly the ship’s alarms went off


    26. alarms at their homes


    27. The eighth and then, much slower, the ninth came amid increasing uproar as alarms raced through the darkness ahead of them


    28. as alarms raced through the darkness ahead of them


    29. By the next morning, we had gone out on ten alarms through the


    30. If any of the alarms went off he would call a specialist from the research laboratory to assess the situation

    31. However, they should be used with treatment rather than a substitute for it as most of these products will not cure bedwetting themselves: Tip #51: Choose the right Moisture Detector Alarms


    32. Moisture detector alarms are among the most effective tools in helping children


    33. Unlike many of the devices and tools intended for children with Enuresis, alarms can actually treat bedwetting rather than just making the symptoms more bearable


    34. Because moisture detection alarms are so effective in helping children overcome


    35. Plus, some alarms allow children to be woken with vibrations rather than sound


    36. Doctor or clinic reviews and recommendations from other parents can also help guide you to the alarms that have most of the above features


    37. Thin underwear that allows a good grip for the clips that often come with the alarms, as well as a t-shirt to prevent tugging at wires, is often a good idea


    38. For example, low-cost moisture detector alarms have very high rates of efficiency, even when compared to high-priced training


    39. Alarms wailed throughout the museum


    40. Everything was labelled - heat sensors, lights, video monitors and alarms

    41. And the electrician who invented fire alarms


    42. The alarms and barricades were activated a few minutes too late


    43. As the alarms sounded on the mainland, the electric rings went off


    44. Since then, self-preservation alarms rang constantly


    45. It had mechanical recorders and pen & paper chart printers, with valve controls, switches and alarms all housed in a pale blue sheet metal frame


    46. had been done to the vehicle and after setting the alarms on the house, they went


    47. “I do locks and alarms


    48. to scan for alarms on the doors in front of her


    49. “Hang on mate!” he shouted over the din of the warning klaxons and alarms that had by now been set off


    50. The clattering and howling of the alarms throughout the factory were by now producing an intolerable din














































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    Synonyms for "alarm"

    alarm alarm system warning device alarm clock alarum alert warning signal consternation dismay appal appall horrify tocsin caution notice horror dread fear fright trepidation terror horn call siren summons panic scare shock startle terrify

    "alarm" definitions

    fear resulting from the awareness of danger


    a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event


    an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger


    a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time


    fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised


    warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness