alarm

Example Sentences

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To his alarm, police lights soon flashed through his bedroom window.

From Los Angeles Times

At first glance, finding worms in fish may seem alarming.

From Science Daily

She was joined on the red sofa by her husband Steve, who joked that the "the first thing to go" in their new lives going forward would be the "the alarm clock".

From BBC

He is irreplaceable, the drop-off after him alarming.

From BBC

An alarming nugget buried in the Treasury Department’s annual report External link on the federal government’s books from the last fiscal year: Its long-term liabilities exceed its expected revenue by tens of trillions of dollars.

From Barron's