How to Use fire alarm in a Sentence

fire alarm

noun

• 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
• David got away again because her team got flummoxed by an old woman who yanked a fire alarm.
  — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 25 Sep. 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

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024