Sentence examples for pulled the alarm from inspiring English sources

Officials later said a student had pulled the alarm after mistakenly thinking she smelled smoke.

In halting English, he explained that he had pulled the alarm thinking that it controlled the traffic signal to cross the street.

When patrolman Richard Trice broke the glass and pulled the alarm on the red Gamewell Peerless Herculite Fire Box, he sent a code etched on narrow paper streaming from a ticker-tape machine at the District's fire headquarters building.

Ms. Wannamaker, who lives a few doors from the third-floor lounge, said that when she awoke to the alarm, her first thought was that "somebody was drunk and pulled the alarm".

Elaine Hannah, a senior who lived in Clothier Hall on the university's main campus for two years, said: "When you hear the alarm, it's not 'Oh my God, where's the fire?' it's 'Who pulled the alarm this time?' You get so used to people crying wolf, when it happens for real, you don't expect it".

It seems that someone pulled the alarm when the train arrived at Charing Cross underground station at about 9.20AM, and passengers fled the train in a panic.

It wrote that "no one had any interest, for different reasons, in pulling the alarm.

Since the solenoid pulls its plunger when it is powered through two control connectors, the wire that ties the plunger with the alarm bar pulls the alarm bar and disables the alarm whenever the solenoid is powered on.

They are ready for someone, something, to pull the alarm so that they can step it up.

To deter pranksters from pulling the alarm handles, plastic covers, costing about $100 each, were placed on each alarm in the university's 172 residence halls on the New Brunswick campus.

Generally speaking, affected countries prefer that WHO not pull the alarm — at least at the outset of an epidemic — for fear of the economic repercussions for travel, tourism and trade.