There was little to be made out, in the mist and darkness; but the loud shouting of men vibrated through the air, and the barking of the neighbouring dogs, roused by the sound of the
alarm bell, resounded in every direction.
The
alarm bell was ringing all day long in the towns; men rushed together, but why they were summoned and who was summoning them no one knew.
'Ring the
alarm bell, somebody!' cried a dozen voices.
However, the captain said there was no need to hit the panic button yet but the losses served as an
alarm bell. "We didn't play well in the entire tournament.
A bell or gun used to sound a warning was called an
alarm bell or alarm gun.
I SEE that Theresa May, the Home Secretary, rang the
alarm bell when she saw the immigrant iceberg dead ahead.
She sounded the
alarm bell after opening the Diabetes Update Symposium.
Why weren't they ringing the
alarm bell a long time ago?
Yesterday's Back Page Headline: BATES:
ALARM BELL IS RINGING WHEN my
alarm bell rings, I wake up and smell the coffee.
"The EU will fail to meet its target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 unless there is significant additional effort over the next two years": the European Commission, which undertook a mid-term evaluation of the progress made in implementing the Biodiversity Action Plan, which it published in May 2006, sounds the
alarm bell. Its communication of 16 December calls upon all member states to redouble their efforts: an enormous effort will be required, at the level of both the European Community and the member states, if the EU is to even approach its objective.
Environmental groups said the ice melt was another
alarm bell warning of global warming.
alarm bell - the sound of an alarm (usually a bell)