tocsin
IPA: tˈɑksɪn
noun
- An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference to France.
- A bell used to sound an alarm.
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Examples of "tocsin" in Sentences
- At midnight, the tocsin sounded.
- I did not even react to the tocsin.
- He was surprised to hear the tocsin.
- The man accidentally rang the tocsin.
- In the middle of the night, the tocsin rang.
- Should I insert the ticket number in Tocsin page
- I always liked the word tocsin, which is available.
- At Beauvais the bells rang as though sounding the tocsin.
- The tocsin is the signal for our people in the salient. "
- It terminates at U.S. Route 224 about a mile east of Tocsin.
- She has rung the tocsin, sounded the alarm, lit the signal fire.
- The tocsin bell hanging from its collar was fulfilling its mission.
- That night the sound of the tocsin was again heard, mingling with the booming of cannon.
- The US for its part needs those precious liquid fuels too, and China's torquing of global climate rings the dread tocsin in the American bell tower.
- But that's what Pelosi did, directing her righteous tocsin to the Norman Rockwell-like gatherings of Americans who opposed her expansion of government this past summer.
- On the circular base of his apparatus he installed glass jars, in each of which a leech was imprisoned and attached to a fine chain that led up to a miniature belfry -- from whence the tinkling tocsin would be sounded on the approach of a tempest.
- His purpose was seen by us at once, and seen with fresh alarm; for, if he had been able to reach the great bell, the terrible 'tocsin' would have aroused the country for ten leagues round, and have poured a hundred thousand armed peasantry into Paris.
- At a meeting this week organized by the Council on Foreign Relations, as part of its Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative, five leaders of the Christian churches in Sudan, on a tocsin tour of the United States, reflected on where things have come as a result.
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