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Definition of alarm bell in English: alarm bellnoun A bell rung as a warning of danger. figurative the proposal has set alarm bells ringing Example sentencesExamples - An alarm bell started to sound as Lou quickly pulled Ted out of the way and the other Dragons began to throw their rocks at the window.
- At the police station, Officers Anderson and Patrick were both startled from private musings when the alarm bell rang.
- The alarm bell began to ring, jogging Deed out of her reverie.
- The name hung in the air like an alarm bell before Elise shook her head in disbelief.
- The company, which is the city's biggest automatic vending machine company, said an alarm bell used to be placed in the machines but the loud noise it made when set off upset nearby residents and the practice was discontinued.
- That word ‘intrepid’ is ringing like an alarm bell.
- Change the script to make the dads gay, however, and you go from matinee to over 18s in one ring of the alarm bell.
- Then, when some internal alarm bell rings, the colony begins moving nightly from site to site.
- The drum kit is in splinters, toppled speakers litter the proscenium and it's impossible to tell whether the high-pitched keening filling your head is part of the show or just the alarm bell on your inner ear.
- For example, a chocolate bar wedged to prevent an alarm bell from ringing; rows of old armchairs lined up by a bus stop; an abandoned sofa with cigarette burns; a huge can of peas used as a makeshift doorstop.
- In the space of just 15 minutes - between the alarm bell ringing and the caretaker arriving - the children were able to turn the nursery into a disaster zone.
- We dashed up the final flight of stairs and I put my strength into chiming the alarm bell.
- First the alarm bell rang at two in the mourning waking me up.
- In another case a girl cashier who attempted to ring the alarm bell was kicked in the head.
- After about five minutes, an alarm bell sounded and an acrid smell began to fill the room.
- Those words must be ringing in poor Kelly's ears like a shrill alarm bell.
- At the start of Jonathan Franzen's masterly novel The Corrections, the state of emergency spreading through a fractious household is announced by the metaphor of an unanswered alarm bell.
- PC McDonald was on the beat in Worksop when he received a radio message in the early hours to say the alarm bell was sounding at a jewellers in Central Avenue.
- In Miyun County in Beijing on February 5, an accident set off an alarm bell on an overcrowded bridge in a park during the Lantern Festival and 37 people were killed in the crush.
- Then suddenly without warning a loud alarm bell starts ringing, and there this hellish screeching of steel on steel.
Synonyms siren, warning sound, alarm signal, danger signal, distress signal, alert
Definition of alarm bell in US English: alarm bellnounəˈlärm bel A bell rung as a warning of danger. figurative the proposal has set alarm bells ringing Example sentencesExamples - After about five minutes, an alarm bell sounded and an acrid smell began to fill the room.
- For example, a chocolate bar wedged to prevent an alarm bell from ringing; rows of old armchairs lined up by a bus stop; an abandoned sofa with cigarette burns; a huge can of peas used as a makeshift doorstop.
- That word ‘intrepid’ is ringing like an alarm bell.
- We dashed up the final flight of stairs and I put my strength into chiming the alarm bell.
- At the start of Jonathan Franzen's masterly novel The Corrections, the state of emergency spreading through a fractious household is announced by the metaphor of an unanswered alarm bell.
- Then suddenly without warning a loud alarm bell starts ringing, and there this hellish screeching of steel on steel.
- Then, when some internal alarm bell rings, the colony begins moving nightly from site to site.
- Change the script to make the dads gay, however, and you go from matinee to over 18s in one ring of the alarm bell.
- An alarm bell started to sound as Lou quickly pulled Ted out of the way and the other Dragons began to throw their rocks at the window.
- In Miyun County in Beijing on February 5, an accident set off an alarm bell on an overcrowded bridge in a park during the Lantern Festival and 37 people were killed in the crush.
- First the alarm bell rang at two in the mourning waking me up.
- The alarm bell began to ring, jogging Deed out of her reverie.
- In the space of just 15 minutes - between the alarm bell ringing and the caretaker arriving - the children were able to turn the nursery into a disaster zone.
- PC McDonald was on the beat in Worksop when he received a radio message in the early hours to say the alarm bell was sounding at a jewellers in Central Avenue.
- At the police station, Officers Anderson and Patrick were both startled from private musings when the alarm bell rang.
- The company, which is the city's biggest automatic vending machine company, said an alarm bell used to be placed in the machines but the loud noise it made when set off upset nearby residents and the practice was discontinued.
- Those words must be ringing in poor Kelly's ears like a shrill alarm bell.
- In another case a girl cashier who attempted to ring the alarm bell was kicked in the head.
- The name hung in the air like an alarm bell before Elise shook her head in disbelief.
- The drum kit is in splinters, toppled speakers litter the proscenium and it's impossible to tell whether the high-pitched keening filling your head is part of the show or just the alarm bell on your inner ear.
Synonyms siren, warning sound, alarm signal, danger signal, distress signal, alert
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