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How to use klaxon in a sentence

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Every time the boys' boredom threatens to go off like a klaxon, she produces another palliative.
After all the excitement had died down and we were getting on with what we were doing beforehand, the fire klaxon sounded again.
Somewhere, off in the distance, a klaxon sounded and everyone around me started running.
Winger's indecision faded as the klaxon went off, signaling shift rotation, and he bolted into action.
Give the bus priority over other traffic by fitting a musical klaxon, like the emergency services.
All of a sudden, the stillness of the air was torn by the loud, shrill sound of a klaxon wailing at high pitch.
A loud klaxon and a blaring siren signaled the start of the balloon busting derby.
In Beijing the sounding of car horns is the exception, rather than the rule while Shanghainese seem to hardly ever take their hand off the klaxon button.
Then, if all that fails, maybe try jumping out from behind the bush with a klaxon.
At 8am a klaxon sounds and, along with cheers, whoops and much back-slapping, we start our long trek to the stones.
In the polite, formulaic world of company reporting, this is a warning klaxon.
You'll hear rather than see the unassuming clank of diesel locos sliding in and out of Newton Dale and the more exuberant klaxon and puff, puff, puff of the steam trains.
Note: If the klaxon alarm sounds check that each outrigger is lowered and each footpad is taking equal weight.
Irenka was up front using the lavatory when the lights in the cabin went red and the klaxon sounded over the speakers.
The tassel's current fashionability is a warning klaxon too.
Three garishly-coloured clowns each have a small klaxon in their hand.
You should always bear in mind the Streisand effect, which can have the reverse effect – spreading what you don't want to draw notice to around the internet, with the equivalent of a klaxon attached to it.
For a fee you can buy a police siren or a snorting klaxon to shoo mortals out of your way. In this section Defensive Belgium's rotten food Who cares?
The noise itself is a klaxon of repetitive, high-pitched xylophonic notes, and it's among the least jarring sounds in the iPhone's default set.
He silenced the klaxon on the Prime Ministerial car, which Eden had used frequently, and advertised his love of reading Anthony Trollope and Jane Austen.
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That means I stand in front of the dug out an when I smell something I blow a klaxon.
A klaxon was sounding, and warning lights flashed from the landing slot, to warn ships away from an attempted landing.
We'd both run from that spot in the Tenderloin as the klaxon sounded behind us, and we'd both been picked up by the cops.
Old Swainson answered on his klaxon, and then the liner began to move slowly over the glittering water.
Also we used the mellow horn, for our book said that horns of the klaxon type are not allowed in Switzerland.
The plane's klaxon horn wailed through the night with a noise audible for miles.
They consisted of bells, gongs, klaxon horns, and beautiful rockets that burst in a green flare.
Before he spoke, Jack pressed the button that actuated the klaxon.
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