How to Use raise/sound the alarm in a Sentence
raise/sound the alarm
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Kennedy is hardly the first one to sound the alarm about vaccines.
—Wendy Murphy, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2025
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Other pigeons were stymied in their attempt to sound the alarm.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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Doctors who tried to raise the alarm were censured and threatened.
—Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2020
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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
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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
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Trujillo’s efforts to sound the alarm have at times put his own life in danger.
—Diana Durán, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
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All great prophecies need a storyteller; someone must spread the word, sound the alarm.
—Edmund Arévalo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
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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
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Immune cells in the arm muscle recognize the spike protein as foreign and sound the alarm.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
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Like many who have been trying to raise the alarm, Lustig wasn’t born in the United States.
—Mary Childs, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
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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
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But Denver might sound the alarm if Sutton is not present when minicamp begins.
—Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 21 May 2024
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Schmidt has continued to sound the alarm about China’s AI rise.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
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Bills defense No reason to sound the alarm about the overall performance.
—Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
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Letter to county party Hager has continued to sound the alarm.
—Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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The group should also sound the alarm about the regime’s attack on higher education and freedom of speech.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2025
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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
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But as Woodhall discovered, smart devices can raise the alarm for things outside the cardiac realm too.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Mar. 2025
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But when officials began to sound the alarm, not all residents had the luxury to stay indoors or at home.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 June 2023
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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
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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
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This fateful decision meant that, when he is presumed to have fallen ill on his walk, Mosley was unable to raise the alarm.
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 22 Dec. 2024
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After decades with little response to the problem, a lawsuit filed in 2019 tried to raise the alarm.
—Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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