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How to use the word alarm in a Sentence?

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I don’t think this is a time for panic or alarm, this is not 2008, where people needed to be worried about where they could get their money…It absolutely is not that.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I need my phone for an alarm in the morning, and it helps me go to sleep at night, get up and get your iPod and listen to some music and get a regular alarm clock.

Cora Collette Breuner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I normally don’t get up on a pedestal and sound the alarm, but this is something that I think we need to be looking at carefully.

Stanley Hazen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This decision should alarm every single parent in the United States of America who according to the Lake County State’s Attorney knows exactly what is going on with their 19-year-old adult children and can be held criminally liable for actions taken nearly three years later, these charges are absurd and we will fight them every step of the way.

George Gomez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When the opening kickoff was run back, he jumped up and down and got out of his chair and set – I think – every alarm off in the ICU in the process, but he was fine, it was just an appropriate reaction to a very exciting play. He very much enjoyed it.

Timothy Pritts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Homeland Security Republicans have sounded the alarm on the humanitarian crisis directlyresulting from President Biden’s reckless policies, which have incentivized families and young children to make the dangerous journey to the U.S.-Mexico border, the continued silence from Democrats on this humanitarian crisis is deafening. Democrats should be acting to address the devastation at the border. Republicans are ready with a plan to secure the border, address the pull factors created by the Biden administration, and end this humanitarian crisis on day one of a Republican majority.The American people have had enough and Homeland Republicans are prepared to address the raging fire at our Southwest border.

John Katko

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We've been polling consumers every other week and the first thing that set off alarm bells for me was the spike in the number of parents who don't feel like they can afford all the school supplies this year.

Claire Tassin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was ghostly pale, which I figured at that point that he had been sprayed, and I was concerned, my cop alarm bells went off because if you get sprayed with pepper spray, you're going to turn red. He turned just about as pale as this sheet of paper.

Caroline Edwards

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am here to sound the alarm about a psychopath, killer, in the Middle East with infinite resources, who poses threat to his people, to the Americans, and to the planet.

Saad Aljabri

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If Will has to leave me and Roam behind to go on a work trip, I feel super safe because I have my dog, he’s one of those dogs that, he’s only going to bark if there’s someone sniffing around the bus or something. So he’s an alarm system.

Kristin Watson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Some would consider this a wake-up call. I disagree, the alarm's already gone off.

Wade Crowfoot

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People often think that holidays should be merry, bring relief, and make it easier -- and when they feel good they don't turn to real faith... Now we are going through hard times, people are starting to come closer to God, there are more people here than before, and that's good for us, today in the morning there was an air alarm, but now thank God it's calmer and we could come. It's very important for us. It's the church we visit often.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have been ringing the alarm bell again and again about this -- it's a hard-learned lesson not only for Hong Kong, but also for China.

Jin Dongyan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The situation is tense, people are worried, the city needs peace and peaceful skies … Kyiv residents have been in their basements nonstop for a week now because of air raid alarm going off all the time.

Wladimir Klitschko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We invite all the people, all Ukrainians, all Hasidic people, doesn't matter who, we prepare this place especially for them, in order to hide( when) there is( an) alarm.

Irina Rybnitskaya

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Despite being very conservative, when I joined the Carroll ISD [Independent School District] Diversity Council, they assumed I was a liberal because I’m Hispanic, what I saw shocked me. The left’s hateful ideologies were being taught to our children. I raised my voice, sounded the alarm, and joined fellow parents in fighting back.

Victor Avila

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And after every one of us winds up bearing the cost for cars to install this alarm, you know who's going to ignore it? Crackheads are the people who do it on purpose, a sensor light is not going to fix this problem and Democrats no longer possess the common sense to understand that not every problem in the world can be fixed with a regulation. But don't tell that to the advocacy groups who also want every future car in America to only start when the driver blows into a breathalyzer. Oh great, my other car is a Karen. You know, it's also not safe to drive when you're crying. Should we make a car that follows your texts and stops the engine when you're dumped?

Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This cauldron of extremism and disinformation is being propelled by social media, it's created a lot of kinetic energy that is now a part of more mainstream politics. This is both an early warning system as well as an alarm bell for fires that are already going off. Acceptance of results is not going to be tolerated anymore, unless they align with what this sector wants.

Angelo Carusone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Many of these buildings are old. Not every apartment has a fire alarm. Most of these buildings have no sprinkler system. And so the risk of a fire is much higher in lower-income neighborhoods in The Bronx than it might be elsewhere in New York City or in the country, when we allow our affordable housing developments to be plagued by decades of disinvestment, we are putting lives at risk. These buildings are wide open to catastrophic fires that can cost people their lives, including the lives of children.

Ritchie Torres

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think that we are in a very frightening time, people who are much, much smarter than me, who have studied this much, much longer than I have are ringing the alarm.

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It just happened almost overnight just in the last month. And so, it’s not a failure, but an alarm bell went off. I don’t think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a crisis and the Arctic is sounding the alarm. It is time that world leaders come together to create real change that ensures a safe future for humanity.

Gail Whiteman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

President Biden and Democrats have politicized Covid from the start and refused to acknowledge its origins from China, republicans have been sounding the alarm on these issues for well over year, and Dr. Birx’s closed-door testimony confirms that the world was misled.

Steve Scalise

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The precedence of this is just unnerving for election officials across the country, and it should alarm every American in the country.

Kim Wyman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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