How to Use fire alarm in a Sentence

fire alarm

noun
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  • Bo had found … Just then, a fire alarm sounds in the Arconia.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The footage of the incident from Sept. 30 shows Bowman pulling the signs off the door, pulling the fire alarm, and walking away.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Early in the second half, a fire alarm went off in the stadium.
    — Anne M. Peterson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
  • After that pulling the fire alarm was as predictable as Pavlov’s dogs drooling.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Cast iron fire alarm boxes were common sights throughout the city.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2023
  • On my first night there, at 3 a.m., the fire alarm sounded, sending all the guests out into the streets in their pajamas.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The band also didn’t want any lights on in the room, so Bogart instructed his staff to tape over the fire alarm signs.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The fire alarm is the latest wrinkle for the 49ers, whose lead-up to Sunday’s Super Bowl against the Chiefs hasn’t been perfectly smooth.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Banks said he got involved in an altercation about a month ago when the fire alarm went off at night.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • No fire alarm went off at the time and officials did not see any fire during this initial call.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The fire alarm in the building was also blaring, Collazo said.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Her witchcraft practices set off the fire alarm, to a very irritated Manuel.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The fire alarm was first reported by Niners Nation’s Akash Anavarathan.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Burke said a fire alarm earlier in the day at the State House was likely unconnected to the fire in the basement, given the time between.
    — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • At one point, the shooter can be seen walking in and out of the church office and down a hallway past the children’s ministry, as the lights of what appear to be a fire alarm flash.
    — Emily Cochrane, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But he and many other Luxor guests were woken up by a fire alarm around 2 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • When the fire alarm was triggered, 37 fire engines were sent to the site of the blaze, according to the police report from the Quezon City Police District.
    — Jason Gutierrez, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Be sure to have a working fire alarm and carbon monoxide detectors.
    — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Winkler was staying at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin when the venue was evacuated by a fire alarm.
    — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • The fire alarm on the second floor was activated at 8 p.m. Saturday, Moore said.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • Officers were dispatched after a neighbor called 911 to report that Perez had cut the wires to the complex’s fire alarm system.
    — Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • But more importantly, a fire alarm is nowhere near the same as an armed insurrection.
    — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The fire alarm on the second floor was activated at 8 p.m. Saturday.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
  • The emergency response took place around 11 p.m. Tuesday at 85 Lowell St. as a fire alarm in the building was sounding, police said.
    — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Best of all, in an inspired curatorial flourish, the fire alarm in the gallery (a Simplex TrueAlert) gets a wall label.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Then a key opened a door to a pull down lever, sending an electro-mechanical telegraph signal to a fire alarm office.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2023
  • Bowman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in October for pulling a fire alarm at the U.S. Capitol complex.
    — Alec Dent, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • In the Cannon House Office Building across the street, a fire alarm sounded, prompting an evacuation.
    — Annie Karni, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Where Bowman faced legal headwinds over the fire alarm, Bush is facing a Justice Department probe over her use of campaign funds.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 27 June 2024
  • The shelters have no in-house bathroom or kitchen — that is located steps away in Colville’s house — but there is a bed, ample storage space, a fire alarm and a carbon monoxide detector.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024

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