alarming
Example Sentences
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Delivery robots are both disappointing in their reality and alarming in their symbolic implication.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
By mid-March, alarming snow deficits all over the Western states were capped off by a record-breaking heat wave that melted much of the remaining snowpack.
From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026
Government inspections of nursing homes “found alarming instances of inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs and revealed vulnerabilities in care that have implications for the wider nursing home population,” the HHS inspector general’s office reports.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
The infections of these young infants "who are not yet eligible for routine vaccination, are especially alarming", said Flowers from Unicef.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
The possibility of the young man’s coming to Mrs. Goddard’s that morning, and meeting with Harriet and pleading his own cause, gave alarming ideas.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing alarming
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