ALARM in a Sentence

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For a moment there was great alarm; it was feared that the men might have harmed her in some way, or even carried her off with them.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALARM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
alarm
 n.  any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The young man who had first given the alarm was leading them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  "She shall not be buried in that," he cried with a fierce snarl, and before an alarm could be raised sprang down the stairs and was gone.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  For a moment there was great alarm; it was feared that the men might have harmed her in some way, or even carried her off with them.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
4  But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound, at last overcame the suggestions of alarm.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
5  No alarm takes place, till this chap, Bitzer, turns out this morning, and begins to open and prepare the offices for business.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
6  And be careful how you look on Rowena, whom he cherishes with the most jealous care; an he take the least alarm in that quarter we are but lost men.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  "This may be a false alarm, or a forged letter," said De Bracy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  If he belong to that party, he must already have given them the alarm, and it will avail nothing either to fight or fly.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  For three men to attempt them at this moment, were little else than madness; for they are good men of war, and have, as such, placed sentinels to give the alarm when any one approaches.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  Upon hearing the sound of feet approaching, the watch instantly gave the alarm, and the sleepers as suddenly started up and bent their bows.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  This explanation was accordingly returned by these men to Front-de-Boeuf, when he questioned them why they did not make for the battlements upon the alarm.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  The Rabbi now dismounted in great alarm, and hastily applied the remedies which his art suggested for the recovery of his companion.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
13  And with brilliant eyes they watched Connie, as she crouched before them, and they gave short sharp clucks of anger and alarm, but chiefly of female anger at being approached.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  "Nay," said Edmund, who began to listen with alarm.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
15  Her agitation and alarm exceeded all that was endured by the rest, by the right of a disposition which not even innocence could keep from suffering.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
16  If there's any trouble, raise/sound the alarm by pulling the emergency cord.
17  It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.
18  I felt a growing sense of alarm when he did not return that night.
19  I've set my alarm clock for six tomorrow.
20  I forgot to set the burglar alarm.
21  She turned off the alarm and promptly went back to sleep.
22  The noise of the fire alarm resounded through/throughout the building.
23  "Come, my head is free at last!" said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found.
24  When I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
25  The phone includes a mechanical device that can make the phone vibrate when it would ring or make a sound, such as an incoming call or an alarm.
26  When a hive is threatened, bees release a pheromone-like substance which is called an alarm odor.
27  A cat killing a small rodent is not a cause for alarm as regards the psychological health of the cat.
28  I did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
29  Any tentative move towards re-militarisation would trigger alarm bells in China given Japan's history of military aggression in the region.
30  Whom a serpent has bitten a lizard alarms.