Words similar to alarm

Example sentences for: alarm

How can you use “alarm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

When your neighbor installs a burglar alarm, thoughtful burglars are encouraged to choose a different target--like your house, for example.
Put plainly, there is no way to overstate the alarm everyone in America ought to feel over the fact that childhood poverty, despite our nation's skyrocketing wealth, is still on the increase!
The textbook example of kin selection is a newly minted gene that inclines a ground squirrel to stand up and give an alarm call upon seeing a predator.
Although the British might be thought to have less cause for alarm, the Times of London led Monday with a story headlined "British alert over Saddam terror strike" about contingency plans to counteract biological or chemical attacks in Britain.
Anyone who might have set off that detector would have been screened with a hand wand-a procedure requiring the screener to identify the metal item or items that caused the alarm.