Sentence examples for alarm set off from inspiring English sources

Scotland Yard is reviewing why officers were not sent to investigate an intruder alarm set off there shortly after midnight on the Friday.

But the general alarm set off by talk of an "epidemic" is a less obvious force for good.The only wave that has broken is one of publicity.

Within seconds, Kelly was informed by White House security that it was a false alarm, set off by an electrical glitch.

In one experience, there was an alarm set off one morning.

About 12 40 p.m., as the barbecue was getting under way, according to later court testimony, Mr. Barbara's wife, Josephine, spotted the officers and sounded an alarm, setting off a mass exodus.

The alarm sets off the day's adventures for both player and protagonist, so as you ride the train or bus to work in the morning, the robot boy might be walking through a cornfield.

"Grabbed the TV to stop it falling, books off, car alarms set off by it in the neighbourhood," Belinda McCammon tweeted.

Probably more disturbing than the sound of the bombs themselves, is the unexpected noise of a symphony of car alarms set off by the attack.

They turned out to be false alarms, set off by the use of four-letter words in activities like online poker games with friends, he said.

Aaron Friedman, a consultant for Transportation Alternatives and a self-professed hater of car alarms, set off one he had brought to make a noisy point.

First, the vast majority of blaring sirens are false alarms, set off by passing traffic, the jostling of urban life or nothing at all.