Sentence examples for cries fire from inspiring English sources

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Oh look, it's that Danish lady who cries fire.

From this I can assume that she cries fire and would therefore be an unsuitable girlfriend.

Here's the bottom line: If your idea of leadership is a guy who cries fire in a crowded theater, then vote for the Republican candidate nearest you (or at least most of them) in the November election -- and help make Mitch McConnell Senate Majority Leader.

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That was to cry, Fire, Fire in Noah's Flood".

Mr. Giuliani is not crying fire in a crowded theater.

Speech has its limits, and not only in the prohibition against crying "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

We don't have the right to casually cry fire in a crowded theatre, or to use hate speech - at least in Europe, as opposed to the US.

Free speech has always had its limits: no one has a right to cry "fire" falsely in a crowded theater, to take the classic example of speech as illegal behavior.

"People expect me to scream, cry, fire someone," Ms. Abdul tells someone on the set, mocking the nutty inner self she revealed in "Hey Paula," her former reality show.

There was a slight flash from the film which was reflected on the screen and several people, with their minds excited by the nature of the performance cried: "Fire!" As a matter of fact the flames were confined to the protected cinematograph box, but the mischief was done and there was a terrible stampede to the main exit.

It has never been unlimited – you cannot cry "fire" in a theatre when there is none –but the right of citizens to say what they think, however offensive, however shocking and outside of mainstream thought, is part and parcel of the messy bargain that is democracy.

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