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How to use alarm in a sentence

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He used his phone and his watch as an alarm clock, and he slept on an air mattress.
The watchman phoned the emergency services and other colleagues after the alarm activated.
The alarm clock rings accusingly, a reminder of failed intentions to skip the pub and have an early night.
And the fire alarm before the last round of the day was also amusing, but just added to much of our aggravation.
A high-pitched smoke alarm went off, and water sprinklers began showering the entire kitchen.
On six occasions in the past year he has woken to the sound of breaking glass and the alarm going off.
The guardsman hit hard and lay still, and shouts of alarm and terror mixed with fresh cries of pain as arrows pelted his straggling rearguard.
Unless your alarm activates, the emergency services may not immediately know who your keyholders are.
Honda's Stream is also fitted with an engine immobiliser, alarm system and remote keyless entry.
It would be nice to have a reminder alarm set a few days ahead of a scheduled meeting.
For peace of mind, the properties come with wiring for a security alarm, and two inter-connected smoke detectors on the landing.
She eventually managed to stop a passing motorist in the early hours yesterday and raise the alarm.
The ingenuity of the contraption was that a string was wound around the alarm winder and the other end tied to the bolt.
She managed to free herself and raise the alarm after a passing motorcyclist gave her a lift to the police station.
One of the men tried to hijack a car, but the woman driver managed to raise the alarm and the man was held until police arrived to arrest him.
She also did a night shift on one of the wings and had to raise the alarm after a prisoner tried to harm herself.
The answer to this problem is a radio receiver that activates itself and raises a noisy alarm when a storm warning is issued.
His father was asleep upstairs, but he heard the alarm and rushed down to rescue his son.
His apparent failure to notice that the pressure system was still on manual reportedly resulted in a warning alarm being sounded at 10,000 ft.
The two-year-old Labrador can open doors, turn on lights, pick up dropped items and raise the alarm if something is wrong with Luke.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was no sound in the room but the sound of breathing and the loud ticking of an alarm clock.
We saw just now that the brittle-star breaks off its own rays at the slightest alarm.
Rabbi Gershon went home in alarm and told his sister that the claimant was come.
It causes an alarm but does not prove mortal, and is probably what we term the chickenpox.
Entire packs of Ceylonese species will, at the slightest alarm, become invisible by crouching on a palm-tree.
The shouting voices which bayed the alarm brought other guards to the chase.
The Countess Halfont and Dagmar ran to her side, the latter frantic with alarm.
This diagnosis, so categoric underneath its familiar form and somewhat faulty grammar, sounded a serious cry of alarm.
As a matter of course, the convives had left the table, and alarm was frightening the servants into sobriety.
Meanwhile fire-signals had been raised, conveying the alarm to Peiraeus and Athens.
As he spoke a blackbird came running with a chuckle from underneath the berberis, looked at them with alarm, and ran back.
Only an alarm of cossacks could restore to their eyes a semblance of martial resolution.
But Mr. Paine assured her that letters were likely to be irregular, and there was no ground for alarm.
Moreover, thanks to bong's timely alarm, every one had got out of the way in good season.
We will set the burglar alarm wires, which I have neglected for some time, as I fancied everything would be secure here.
True, the burglar alarm had given notice of the presence of the men, but Tom and Ned had not acted quite quickly enough.
It was at this point that her mind would awake like a burglar alarm suddenly set off.
It must have been about midnight when they were both awakened by hearing the burglar alarm go off.
This strikes like an alarm, that like a hammer, while a third imitates the tones of a bagpipe.
Coming up unexpectedly by a byroad, they captured all the National pickets except one, who gave the alarm and ran into the camp.
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