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smoke alarms

n. (plural of smoke alarm English)

Usage examples of "smoke alarms".

It is the kind of fire that just barely puts out enough smoke to detonate the smoke alarms.

And those things are like smoke alarms, they can go off for no good reason, and then where are you?

I met him out at the house and went through the whole place to decide what I needed in the way of window and screen sensors and smoke alarms and panic buttons and all that stuff.

But the fire did start, the fire-fighters reckoned, in the charity shop, and the back door there wasn't bolted, and both shops of the old place were lined and partitioned with dry old wood, though they've rebuilt it with brick and concrete now, and it's awash with smoke alarms.

The residential street was quiet but for the muffled blaring of the smoke alarms in the Delmann house: no traffic at the moment, no one out for a walk in the warm August night.

The detector showed nothing except the smoke alarms and the simple tamper sensors on the door.

There would be no hiss of water from the pipes as the flames rose, no warning buzz from smoke alarms.

To provide double protection, some smoke alarms use both kinds of detector.

I don't even remember the time you cut all the cords off those smoke alarms we were selling because that lady wanted cordless models.