Sentence examples of "sonner l'alarme" in French

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Lorsque je les ai vus sortir ensemble, je leur ai demandé, "Est-ce que j'entends sonner les cloches du mariage?". When I saw them on a date, I asked them, "Do I hear wedding bells?"
Je venais de me mettre au lit quand le téléphone commença à sonner. I had hardly gotten into bed when the telephone began to ring.
Dès qu'elle l'entendit sonner, elle décrocha le téléphone. As soon as she heard the bell ring, she answered the telephone.
Le téléphone était juste en train de sonner, non ? The telephone was just ringing, wasn't it?
Pourquoi ne pas la sonner maintenant ? Why not ring her up now?
À ce moment, j'ai entendu le téléphone sonner. Just then, I heard the telephone ring.
J'ai entendu le téléphone sonner. I heard the telephone ringing.
Règle l'heure pour faire sonner le réveil. Set the time on the alarm.
La cloche est en train de sonner. The bell is ringing.
On a écouté la cloche sonner. We listened to the bell ring.
La pendule vient de sonner dix coups. The clock has just struck ten.
Le temps n'a aucune division qui marque son passage, il n'y a jamais de tempête ni d'éclat des trompettes pour annoncer le début d'un nouveau mois ou d'une nouvelle année. Même lorsqu'un siècle commence, ce ne sont que nous, mortels, qui faisons sonner les cloches et envoyons des salves de fusils. Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Le téléphone ne cessait de sonner. The phone kept ringing.
J'ai entendu sonner la cloche de la porte de l'entrée. I heard the front doorbell ring.
Fais sonner la cloche dès que tu me veux. Ring the bell when you want me.
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