How to Use false alarm in a Sentence

false alarm

noun

• A false alarm drew firefighters to the school.
• The report that the factory would be closing was a false alarm.
• He thought he might be having a heart attack, but his chest pains were just a false alarm.
• While those concerns were a false alarm, the risk of a real outbreak hangs over the lake.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2024
• Even if this case proves to be a false alarm, people tracking bird flu seem more on edge than ever.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
• There was the man who cheated on Rousey and prompted an STD false alarm.
  — Mary Pilon, Esquire, 10 Nov. 2015
• Over the past five years, executives and investors have had to digest a rapid succession of macroeconomic shocks, crises, and false alarms.
  — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak paul Swartz, Harvard Business Review, 16 July 2024
• For now, the tremor appears to have been a false alarm.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
• This isn't the first time a false alarm has sparked panic.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
• No one knows for sure, and this may all turn out to be a false alarm.
  — Caitlin Long, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• Yet April came to a close with nothing but false alarms.
  — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 7 May 2019
• To be sure, there have been false alarms in high yield before.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• The false alarm charge carries a penalty of five years in prison and/or $5,000.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
• Las Vegas must feel the Atlanta Hawks were a false alarm in 2021.
  — Ray Glier, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• There was a false alarm when someone thought a new mattress was the wrong size.
  — Susannah Jacob, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2021
• Unlike in 2016, this isn’t a false alarm or a Lucy and the football moment.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2021
• One such false alarm almost caused a crash from the car behind.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2019
• Hanabusa used the false alarm as a key camapaign issue against Ige.
  — Amy Lieu, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2018
• Her April fever had been a false alarm — just a teething baby — but this was the real thing.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• The projected end of his empire had turned out to be a false alarm.
  — Time, 25 Jan. 2018
• Petrov believed the incident to be a false alarm, and stood by his call.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018
• Now, there’s a chance that these detections are false alarms.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• Heads up that putting them near a fireplace, bathroom, or kitchen could cause a false alarm.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• The girl will be filed on in juvenile court for making false alarms.
  — cleveland, 27 Feb. 2020
• This certainly isn't the first time false alarms and push alerts have sparked panic.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
• But the terrorist scare turned out to be a false alarm and the Russian leader called off the order.
  — Lukas Mikelionis, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2018
• The cause of the false alarm was not made immediately clear.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2018
• About 90 percent of ground sensor alerts were false alarms.
  — Lauren Etter, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Search crews have responded to at least two false alarms since the search began.
  — Corey Arwood, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2019
• But those tests fail to detect many cancers, and also send up a lot of false alarms.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024