How to Use raise/sound the alarm in a Sentence

raise/sound the alarm

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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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