Below you will find example sentences with "fire alarm". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Fire Alarm in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: alarm
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 25.6 words

Words in this phrase

fire alarm

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • fire can mean: A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and ... Common word
  • alarm can mean: A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 15 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

9pm the fire alarm sounded with 1× a general fire alarm at 10 1× a general fire alarm at 316 1× a home fire alarm call rather 1× after a fire alarm earlier in 1× an automated fire alarm at an 1× as a fire alarm system missing 1× became a fire alarm dispatcher on 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a aaal would 1× a brand new 1× before the birthday 1× breaking the calls 1× fire personnel responded 1× for each report 1×

Common sentence endings:

8th ave residence 1× a fire alarm 1× according to officials 1× evacuate the residents 1× fire brigade said 1× fire in september 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

call 5× responded 4× two 4× system 3× off 3× calls 3× heard 3× firefighters 3× department 3× first 2× came 2× residents 2×

Related phrases

fire department fire chief volunteer fire fire departments fire station alarm bells fire crews county fire fire broke fire damage

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around alarm:

alarm bells 14× false alarm 10×

Just before it in the phrase index:

finishing touches finishing third finished third finished fourth finish line fingers crossed

Just after it in the phrase index:

fire broke fire chief fire crews fire damage fire danger fire department

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

fire department fire chief fire departments fire station fire crews fire broke

Same ending:

false alarm harassment alarm

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "fire alarm" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 9pm the fire alarm sounded with, a general fire alarm at 10, call, responded and two stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with fire department, fire chief, volunteer fire, alarm bells and false alarm, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with fire alarm

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A.-aaal would pull the fire alarm, thinking it was an ATM. (12 words)

Fire personnel responded to an automated Fire alarm at an 8th Ave. residence. (13 words)

The fire alarm has been shut down and a fire watch is in place. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

Security guards at the 850-year-old cathedral first heard the fire alarm at 6:20 p.m. local time on Monday, and evacuated the cathedral even though they didn’t see any sign of fire, a spokesman for the Paris Fire Brigade said. (44 words)

Breaking the calls down for the month of September, Chief Cox said they responded to 38 medical calls, two fire alarm calls, one structure fire, four vehicle collisions, two vehicle fires and one grass fire in September. (37 words)

The fire that killed four people in Hamilton last week, including two children, was sparked on an "upholstered sofa" on the ground floor of a townhouse that had no working fire alarm, according to officials. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

The first call came at 11:24 a.m., when a fire alarm activated, and Biermann indicated more residents reported the fire following the initial alarm.

For each report, “several breaches existed” was a constant reference, with basic safety requirements such as a fire alarm system missing or a smoke detector not connected to the alarm system being noted.

And it was the second time the alarm went off Wednesday, after a fire alarm earlier in the day.

A brand-new fire station in Germany that was destroyed in a fire did not have a fire alarm system, officias say.

Breaking the calls down for the month of September, Chief Cox said they responded to 38 medical calls, two fire alarm calls, one structure fire, four vehicle collisions, two vehicle fires and one grass fire in September.

Security guards at the 850-year-old cathedral first heard the fire alarm at 6:20 p.m. local time on Monday, and evacuated the cathedral even though they didn’t see any sign of fire, a spokesman for the Paris Fire Brigade said.

Officers received a general fire alarm at 316 Huntington Ave. There was no smoke or fire.

Officers responded to a general fire alarm at 10 Coventry St. There was no fire, but there was burnt food.

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The fire that killed four people in Hamilton last week, including two children, was sparked on an "upholstered sofa" on the ground floor of a townhouse that had no working fire alarm, according to officials.

The bottle filled with fuel caught fire, and luckily, the man's girlfriend heard the fire alarm at 3am and woke up the sleeping man.

The building’s fire alarm alerted firefighters to the blaze just after 6:15 a.m., fire officials said.

Before the birthday party, Brunt’s unit extinguished a car fire, helped out on a call of a tractor-trailer hanging off the side of a highway and responded to a fire alarm.

The fire alarm has been shut down and a fire watch is in place.

Fire personnel responded to an automated Fire alarm at an 8th Ave. residence.

The court heard that just before 9pm the fire alarm sounded with Turl and his colleague working together to locate the fire and evacuate the residents.

Police said the gunman opened fire with an AR-15 rifle after setting off a fire alarm in the school, 75 kilometres north of Miami.

The Feb. 14 call came to the fire department as a home fire alarm call rather than a 911 call, triggering the department’s policy of sending two firefighters instead of three or more.

When he was 18, DiBernardo Jr. became a fire alarm dispatcher on Long Island, and the next year he became a volunteer with the Setauket Fire Department, according to his father.

A.-aaal would pull the fire alarm, thinking it was an ATM.

And it has continued to be a busy Christmas for the station, with firefighters called to a second automatic fire alarm at sheltered housing in the Tupsley area.

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