Example sentences for: alarms

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

  • Like the checkpoints in Boston, it lacked closed-circuit television surveillance so there is no documentary evidence to indicate when the hijackers passed through the checkpoint, what alarms may have been triggered, or what security procedures were administered.

  • Having an obviously high opinion of yourself threatens and alarms both peers and superiors, often to your ultimate detriment.

  • "Pundit Central" is sufficiently cynical about TV pundits that the transformation of one of them into a corporate shill should set off no alarms.

  • A proposal to ban knives altogether in 1993 had been rejected because small cutting implements were difficult to detect and the number of innocent "alarms" would have increased significantly, exacerbating congestion problems at checkpoints.

  • Talk of challenging Clinton alarms Republican leaders and moderates.


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