The alarm rang and everyone had to evacuate.

Say ... I can hear screams coming from the women's bath.

Although the alarm rang I failed to wake up.

I heard a Japanese nightingale.

We're in a slump, barely scraping by, so we certainly don't have the margin to take on a part-time worker.

Let's return when the frog croaks.

There are birds singing in the cage, aren't there?

It must be morning, for the birds are singing.

The alarm clock went off at seven o'clock.

The phone rang at five o'clock this morning.

The toaster-oven's timer rings. The fragrant smell of well toasted bread.

All of a sudden, the fire alarm went off.

The trumpets sounded the retreat.

He came on board this company with a lot of fanfare and he turns out to have the skill and talent to live up to it.

A lot of insects are chirping in the field.