false alarm

Last year, however, a Voice of San Diego review of dispatch records suggested that false alarms were more common than advertised.

And no issue should be defined by its outliers because it paints a false picture.

On Christmas Day, sometime after dark, a hideous fire overtook the venue: 100 firefighters, 33 fire trucks, a four-alarm blaze.

He has contributed to a false picture of law enforcement based on isolated injustices.

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.