The phrase "air-raid alarm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a warning signal indicating an impending air attack, typically in a military context.
Example: "When the air-raid alarm sounded, everyone was instructed to take cover immediately."
Alternatives: "bomb alert" or "air raid siren".
He had seen it as a boy in Palermo, but missed the ending because of an air-raid alarm.
In the deathless phrase of General McDonnell of our local Interceptor Command, "An air-raid alarm is a warning, not a promise".
The appearance of a plane which couldn't immediately be accounted for would be the signal for a "yellow," or precautionary, air-raid alarm to be sent out to the police, firehouses, and air-raid wardens, even though probably harmless.
The apparent willingness of counterparties to lose money again and again, a former manager at Deutsche Bank told me, should have "sounded an air-raid alarm" that the true purpose of the mirror trades was to facilitate capital flight.
Back at the Novitiate that evening, the theological student, who had been rooming with Mr. Fukai at the mission house, told the priests that the secretary had remarked to him, during an air-raid alarm one day not long before the bombing, "Japan is dying.
Precaution During that first air-raid alarm a number of small disasters occurred, one of them taking place in a household where the mistress recalled having been told that the way to save framed pictures and the glass that covers them is to lay them under the cushions of an upholstered chair or couch.
"There may be some grousing about the color-coded alerts, just as I'm sure people complained about false air-raid alarms during World War II.
No air-raid alarms sounded at the time of the strikes, and the air-defense systems of Tripoli and Benghāzī were activated only after the U.S. aircraft had completed their bombing runs.
The New Yorker, December 20 , 1941P. 9 A little boy strolled into his home the afternoon of the first air-raid alarms, to the complete surprise of his mother who hadn't heard a word about the excitement.
Looking up at her teacher, she asked, rather confidentially, "Should I cry?" There is also the case of the little boy who strolled casually into his home the afternoon of the historic first air-raid alarms, to the complete surprise of his mother, who was baking a cake and hadn't heard a word about the excitement.
By Russell Maloney, Jean Drab, and Harold Ross The New Yorker, December 20 , 1941P. 9 A little boy strolled into his home the afternoon of the first air-raid alarms, to the complete surprise of his mother who hadn't heard a word about the excitement.
