alarming
Example Sentences
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If or when those run out before Iran runs out of missiles, drones or launchers then life for those on the ground in the Gulf could be about to get even more alarming.
From BBC
The elder Kwok became the first person to be convicted of this type of offence earlier this month in a case rights groups called an "alarming act of collective punishment".
From Barron's
The conflict revealed alarming gaps in U.S. interceptor supplies.
He said: "I think it is a very alarming sign of how youth are being increasingly drawn to some of these extremist networks."
From BBC
“While we understand that parents naturally have questions when they see alarming claims, these claims are completely false,” he said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
