How to Use raise/sound the alarm in a Sentence
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Workers at the store had been the ones to raise the alarm about the grease trap in the first place, two of them said.
— Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2022 -
But to the public, a recall is a recall, and Valisure had been the first one to sound the alarm.
— Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 9 May 2024 -
Netanyahu’s efforts to sound the alarm about the left on election’s eve should be viewed in this light.
— Brent E. Sasley, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2015 -
So, it was left to Chilean civil society to raise the alarm.
— Gabrielle Smith, CNN, 16 Jan. 2023 -
Doctors who tried to raise the alarm were censured and threatened.
— Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020 -
So this early on in his Big 12 tenure, Sitake is choosing not to sound the alarm.
— Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023 -
Schmidt has continued to sound the alarm about China’s AI rise.
— Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024 -
The more pessimistic Democrats pointed to the potency of those attacks to sound the alarm that the damage may have been done.
— Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 28 June 2024 -
All great prophecies need a storyteller; someone must spread the word, sound the alarm.
— Edmund Arévalo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023 -
This time around, there’s an army of enthusiasts like Stephens ready to sound the alarm when the star goes nova.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 July 2024 -
The people were used to occasional flooding, and on Sept. 10, even rain heavy enough to fill the first dam did not sound the alarm.
— Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023 -
Trujillo’s efforts to sound the alarm have at times put his own life in danger.
— Diana Durán, Washington Post, 9 May 2023 -
And on February 24, in the morning, they were forced to raise the alarm and start preparing the basement at the school for shelter.
— Vogue, 13 Mar. 2022 -
Immune cells in the arm muscle recognize the spike protein as foreign and sound the alarm.
— Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024 -
Bills defense No reason to sound the alarm about the overall performance.
— Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024 -
But Denver might sound the alarm if Sutton is not present when minicamp begins.
— Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 21 May 2024 -
Irene Frachon, a whistleblowing doctor who was among the first to raise the alarm about the drug's effects, welcomed the guilty verdicts.
— Star Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021 -
There is no reason to sound the alarm and stock up on bug spray just because of this first discovery of the yellow-legged hornet.
— Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 16 Aug. 2023 -
The administrator wasn’t the only person to sound the alarm.
— Arturo Torres, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024 -
The recent trio of deaths resulting from people falling off the canyon’s rim could raise the alarm about safety at the canyon’s overlooks.
— Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2024 -
These emotions are meant to shake us out of complacency, to sound the alarm to the very real crisis before us.
— Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024 -
Citizens in France and Germany are given similar advice to flee the scene or hide and raise the alarm.
— Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023 -
Letter to county party Hager has continued to sound the alarm.
— Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024 -
In this scenario, the dolphins would likely detect a swimmer and then raise the alarm with their human handlers.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022 -
The party owes an apology to Congressman Dean Phillips, who ran a quixotic campaign to sound the alarm.
— The Editors, National Review, 21 July 2024 -
Its trade groups and lobbyists have sought to raise the alarm for months about the leasing program’s June 30 expiration date.
— Anna Phillips, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2022 -
This started to change this past week as both Trafigura and Goldman Sachs started to sound the alarm on global copper supplies.
— Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023 -
The big picture: Polis is one of a handful of top Colorado Democrats to sound the alarm over Biden as the presidential nominee.
— Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 12 July 2024 -
McLaren, meanwhile, is only eight points behind Red Bull in the constructors’ championship, enough for the the three-time world champion to sound the alarm.
— Dan Cancian, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024 -
Not specifically tied to earthquakes, the warning systems are meant to raise the alarm for multiple hazards.
— Umair Irfan, Vox, 12 Aug. 2024
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