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- noun Plural form of
alarm .
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Examples
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Tragically, the main alarms did go off to warn the citizens of Bhopal but were shut off as not to panic the populace. (see links here and here)
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Our virgin alarms are tingling just thinking about him.
Top 10 Other Character Actors Who Would Also Make Good Presidents | Best Week Ever 2007
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The thief was an expert in alarms, which helped in the theft.
January 2006 2006
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Such scandalous behavior of the part of soldiers I should have considered impossible, as, with some experience of camps and armies, I have never even in alarms among camp-followers seen the like of it.
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We shall no toil nor danger dread, no vain alarms we feel,
Colin's Return to Sea Anonymous 1800
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One might wonder why our bearded progressive insurgent has been so mum about the huge costs of this bailout — why he hasn’t been shouting alarms from the rooftops.
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Where you put those alarms is critical; here’s how to situate them for the earliest warning.
Face Your Fears Day: Five threats that lurk in your home 2010
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Best bit of the day: "Melanie’s voice had gone sharp and hard, exactly like the parent of a five-year-old pushed to the final limit, and Wren could hear the train alarms ringing, signaling blood about to hit the tracks."
The Writing Life: Stuff and Sundry suricattus 2005
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Or why not call the alarms whole house and kitchen/bath to eliminate confusion about which type works best where.
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Or why not call the alarms whole house and kitchen/bath to eliminate confusion about which type works best where.
GHibbs commented on the word alarms
My use as a verb: 'The noise of the fireworks alarms the children and the animals.'
August 26, 2011