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Examples

  • On this day, they happened to giving out free samples of a new flavor—five-alarm chili peanuts.

    Going Nuts in Manhattan Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • That makes perfect sense -- to anyone who believes that a one-alarm fire and a five-alarm fire need the same number of fire trucks.

    Rick Horowitz: Losing Their Gulf Cred Rick Horowitz 2010

  • When they smell smoke, they assume it's going to become a five-alarm fire very quickly and hence they cut losses.

    Willow Bay: Michael Martin's Inner Voice Willow Bay 2011

  • And when my humble request for a championship rematch was fulfilled, the fire that the Lakers owned for redemption blazed through me like a five-alarm fire.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • When they smell smoke, they assume it's going to become a five-alarm fire very quickly and hence they cut losses.

    Willow Bay: Michael Martin's Inner Voice Willow Bay 2011

  • When they smell smoke, they assume it's going to become a five-alarm fire very quickly and hence they cut losses.

    Willow Bay: Michael Martin's Inner Voice Willow Bay 2011

  • PJ Smith for The Wall street Journal Winds fanned a five-alarm fire on Feb. 19 in Brooklyn.

    Fire Blamed on Voodoo Rite Sean Gardiner 2011

  • A five-alarm fire that claimed the life of a retired schoolteacher in Brooklyn's Flatbush section last weekend was caused by candles lit for a voodoo ceremony meant to bring good luck, fire officials said Friday.

    Fire Blamed on Voodoo Rite Sean Gardiner 2011

  • When they smell smoke, they assume it's going to become a five-alarm fire very quickly and hence they cut losses.

    Willow Bay: Michael Martin's Inner Voice Willow Bay 2011

  • And when my humble request for a championship rematch was fulfilled, the fire that the Lakers owned for redemption blazed through me like a five-alarm fire.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

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