alarm
Example Sentences
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The Geneva Conventions’ protocols made such acts illegal, but as we’re discovering with alarming frequency and force these days, laws are only as effective as our willingness to abide by them.
From Salon
His mother “worked as a receptionist at a burglar alarm company—one of the few growth industries in the neighborhood” during the early 1960s.
Waller has been one of the policymakers expressing alarm at the low jobs growth, advocating for rate cuts to spur economic activity.
From Barron's
Maybe I felt familiar to him in a way that carried both safety and alarm.
From Los Angeles Times
Jacqueline Smith, Marine Coordinator at the International Transport Workers' Federation, said numerous seafarers had been raising the alarm over supplies in recent days.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
