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How to use tocsin in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tocsin? Here are some examples.

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But we saw it as a fitting tocsin, readying us for our return on Sunday evening to the everyman's world that lay beyond Monza.
There's a splashing in the shallows, a dog raising its voice in ecstasy, the sharp tocsin of the lifeguard's whistle.
Something about the brightness of that hyacinthine moment… Sound the tocsin in Tioga!
At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair.
As Stevenson's sleeping Winnie awakes to the sound of a terrifying tocsin, you feel she has to psych herself up for her incarcerated ordeal in the baking sun.
When war's loud tocsin sounded its alarm it woke them from dreaming in the dawning of their day and early in 1915 they enlisted vowing to be comrades through thick and thin unto the death.
Now, thanks to Akin, it may be possible for the tocsin to be heard.
Past two years old Keg was now, a big and very bearly bear, and with the first tocsin of fall in the air he'd wandered off toward Sugar-loaf, answering the call of his kind.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was the tocsin of their doom, of the downfall of their establishments, and the ruin of their work.
On the 15th of October, at six in the morning, the tocsin was sounded in Paris.
What priest does not know that tocsin of the night, and the start from peaceful slumbers?
Drums can be heard beating the alarm, and the tocsin peals from the churches.
The tocsin therefore was sounded and the hosts of guildsmen and burghers marched out to attack the enemy.
The tocsin sounded in the Senate was heard in the lower house.
The illuminated village had seized hold of the tocsin, and, abolishing the lawful ringer, rang for joy.
The tocsin, says a journal of the period, was heard on all sides.
The sound of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks, and every church within earshot was hard at work killing sleep with a vehement disorderly tocsin.
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