How to Use false alarm in a Sentence

false alarm

noun

• A false alarm drew firefighters to the school.
• The report that the factory would be closing was a false alarm.
• He thought he might be having a heart attack, but his chest pains were just a false alarm.
• This isn't the first time a false alarm has sparked panic.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
• No one knows for sure, and this may all turn out to be a false alarm.
  — Caitlin Long, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• Yet April came to a close with nothing but false alarms.
  — Samantha Leach, Glamour, 7 May 2019
• To be sure, there have been false alarms in high yield before.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• The false alarm charge carries a penalty of five years in prison and/or $5,000.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
• Las Vegas must feel the Atlanta Hawks were a false alarm in 2021.
  — Ray Glier, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• There was a false alarm when someone thought a new mattress was the wrong size.
  — Susannah Jacob, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2021
• Unlike in 2016, this isn’t a false alarm or a Lucy and the football moment.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 26 Aug. 2021
• One such false alarm almost caused a crash from the car behind.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2019
• Hanabusa used the false alarm as a key camapaign issue against Ige.
  — Amy Lieu, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2018
• Her April fever had been a false alarm — just a teething baby — but this was the real thing.
  — Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• Petrov believed the incident to be a false alarm, and stood by his call.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2018
• Now, there’s a chance that these detections are false alarms.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• Heads up that putting them near a fireplace, bathroom, or kitchen could cause a false alarm.
  — Quincy Bulin, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2023
• The girl will be filed on in juvenile court for making false alarms.
  — cleveland, 27 Feb. 2020
• This certainly isn't the first time false alarms and push alerts have sparked panic.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
• Search crews have responded to at least two false alarms since the search began.
  — Corey Arwood, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2019
• The false alarm started when a passerby spotted the large pooch on the top of an apartment building.
  — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• Their low base rates mean that a positive test is more likely to be a false alarm.
  — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2020
• Since then, though, that performance had started to take on the distinct air of a false alarm.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• It was later determined to be a false alarm, but the rest of the night's events were canceled while the system was checked.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 27 May 2018
• Many are false alarms, but the high volume has stressed the medical center to the breaking point.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• In that case, the alert triggering the lockdown was a false alarm and no attack occurred.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
• His department was responding to a false alarm at the time.
  — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2019
• The heightened reaction to a false alarm in New York was one of several around the country in the days since the shootings.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• The reporter visited the school in March and September and witnessed the opening and closing scenes and the scene of the false alarm in the bathroom.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Last week’s signal, however, is so clear that a false alarm would be a once-in-trillions-of-years event.
  — Charlie Wood, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024