How to Use fire alarm in a Sentence

fire alarm

noun
  • Watch the fire alarm go off in the video at the top of this post.
    — EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Hoaxes like a student pulling a fire alarm go back decades.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This small device is like having a fire alarm in your pocket.
    — ABC News, 9 May 2026
  • Cast iron fire alarm boxes were common sights throughout the city.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2023
  • Residents told the outlet that the fire alarm hadn’t rung to alert them to the flame.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 26 Nov. 2025
  • David got away again because her team got flummoxed by an old woman who yanked a fire alarm.
    — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
  • No fire alarm or sprinkler system was installed.
    — The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2026
  • Early in the second half, a fire alarm went off in the stadium.
    — Anne M. Peterson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Bo had found … Just then, a fire alarm sounds in the Arconia.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • No fire alarm went off at the time and officials did not see any fire during this initial call.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 19 Feb. 2024
  • After that pulling the fire alarm was as predictable as Pavlov’s dogs drooling.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Banks said he got involved in an altercation about a month ago when the fire alarm went off at night.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The masked figure snaps a photo of the corpse before slipping out of the unit and pulling the fire alarm.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Another student told the station that his class fled the building when the fire alarm went off.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Be sure to have a working fire alarm and carbon monoxide detectors.
    — Jacqueline Pinedo, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Special elections are sometimes an early fire alarm.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Dispatch reported a fire alarm sounding and smoke coming from a room.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The explosion set off the fire alarm and evacuated the school.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2026
  • If Covid was a fire alarm, our response, incredibly, has been to rip out the wiring.
    — Jennifer W. Tsai, STAT, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The system that was meant to detect pain becomes the source of it, like a fire alarm going off without a fire.
    — Siddhesh Sabnis, The Conversation, 23 June 2025
  • Afterward, the fire alarm can be seen going off throughout the building.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The fire alarm was triggered shortly after his movements were recorded.
    — Raul Trey Lopez, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Firefighters were alerted to the emergency by a fire alarm and a call from a staff member.
    — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2025
  • On Monday, play was suspended on all courts for a brief period due to a fire alarm.
    — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2024
  • But more importantly, a fire alarm is nowhere near the same as an armed insurrection.
    — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • As seen in the video above, even before the fire alarm goes off, the dog was triggered, which happens to canines with phobias.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Saleban Warsame heard a fire alarm and saw water coming into his apartment.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The metaphoric fire alarm is blaring in business today.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Her witchcraft practices set off the fire alarm, to a very irritated Manuel.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Pat Thomas bangs on the piano with his fists and Seymour Wright blares through his sax like a fire alarm.
    — Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024

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