false alarm

The airline industry objects that sometimes these deployable recorders can pop out without cause, spreading needless alarm.

“Nothing else to do” was the most common response for why people chose to go to The Ball, though that rang a little false to me.

Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.

There is cause for alarm when they bring one hundred and ten ships into these seas without any means of resistance on our part.

But the sheer quantity of the inflated currency and false money forces prices higher still.

Her face wore a look of distress, almost of alarm; she kept her place, but her eyes gave Bernard a mute welcome.

The public eye, ever watchful and timid, waits scarcely for the show of danger to take alarm and withdraw its favour.