1.   Environmentalists have spread the alarm about clean air and water.

2.   Then a fierce wind howled through the forest and over the camps, spreading alarm everywhere.

3.   We had no wish to spread alarm.

4.   Spread the alarm.

5.   That is an idea that has spread alarm in many quarters, though.

6.   Voter initiatives in California and Arizona approving the use of marijuana for medical purposes are spreading alarm among many families and confronting law enforcement officials with a tough dilemma.

7.   The sudden absence of Russian peacekeepers in the area spread alarm among the Georgian inhabitants of Saberio who had recently returned.

8.   White House officials also refused to give any details, arguing they did not want to spread needless alarm or compromise their intelligence sources.