Definition of Tocsin
an alarm
Examples of Tocsin in a sentence
Pulling the fire alarm at school will set off an ear grating tocsin that lets everyone know that they are supposed to vacate the building as quickly as possible.
Because they cannot afford to get stuck in traffic, emergency vehicles have a tocsin on them to warn other drivers to move out of their way on the road.
I was awoken by the shrieking wail of a tocsin, telling me that the base was under attack by the enemy!
My alarm clock wakes me up every day at six in the morning with a noisy and irritating tocsin that gets on my nerves quite quickly.
A tocsin doesn’t do very much good as an alarm if it is not loud enough to get everyone’s attention.
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