tocsin

IPA: tˈɑksɪn

An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, originally especially with reference to France.
A bell used to sound an alarm.

Examples of "tocsin" in Sentences

The tocsin is the signal for our people in the salient. "
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.