How to Use raise/sound the alarm in a Sentence

raise/sound the alarm

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Definition of raise/sound the alarmnext
  • 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
  • In fact, dentists are sometimes the first people to raise the alarm about acromegaly and refer their patients to endocrinologists.
    — Angela Haupt, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024

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