alarm
Example Sentences
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High prices for electricity and natural gas used for heating and cooking already have alarmed consumers and played into local elections.
Those two categories of incidents were down in 2024 and 2025 compared with prior years, after a spate of alarming close calls at airports in Austin, Texas, New York and Boston in 2023.
Three residents delivered emotional testimonies before an independent committee of investigators, saying they did not hear any fire alarms that day.
From Barron's
While home runs continue to soar out of stadiums at near-record levels, doubles and triples are disappearing from the sport at an alarming rate.
Ministers walk a tightrope of preparing for various scenarios, updating us on what they are doing or willing to do and hoping they don't induce any sense of panic or alarm.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
