How to Use alarming in a Sentence

alarming

adjective

• One of the most alarming side harms, and one of the most-discussed, are the wounds that xylazine use can cause.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• That’s alarming for the prospects of a just transition.
  — Morgan R. Frank, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The White House bulletin on the health of Woodrow Wilson was alarming.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Conversation, 1 Feb. 2024
• Sweeney plays Claire, who shows up at the doorstep of her mother, Kate (Moore), in an alarming state.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
• An alarming new study in the journal Nature shows how bad the problem could get in 32 coastal cities in the United States.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2024
• The numbers have been alarming: In December, just 1,281 pounds of crawfish moved through the dock.
  — Rick Rojas Emily Kask, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Across the country, thieves are still driving off with the vehicles at an alarming rate.
  — Tom Krishner, oregonlive, 9 May 2023
• That’s not to say that the alarming month that has just passed is solely a result of a hotter atmosphere.
  — Brady Dennis and Scott Dance, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Parts of Antarctica have been seeing alarming changes for a while.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 30 July 2023
• The chaos was an alarming turn for a nation that only four years ago was an inspiration to both Africa and the Arab world.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• Wrap sisal rope around letter frames to craft an alarming welcome message to your door.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Oct. 2023
• Most alarming is the increase in syphilis in newborns, who contract it from their mothers.
  — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
• One of the most alarming signs is if the lion approaches you directly.
  — Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2024
• Viewers have flocked away from CNN in alarming numbers.
  — David Bauder, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
• While the cost of EV production keeps going down, the cost of EV repairs keep going up at alarming rates.
  — José Rodríguez Jr. / Jalopnik, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• Here’s a look at how this alarming exodus is shaking up academia.
  — Stat Staff, STAT, 28 Dec. 2023
• Even more alarming, there were reports that dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank had been killed since the Hamas attack, some by settlers.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Suddenly, one of the men lets out a yelp and the camera swings to reveal a lone orca heading straight for the boat’s transom at an alarming rate of speed.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 16 Aug. 2023
• For those of you who live a lot of your lives on your phones or try to hit that sweet spot on social media to sell tickets, figures like that should be alarming.
  — Ted Deutch, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• In a country where three-fifths of the household assets are tied up in real estate, that decline is alarming.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• In state after state, centers for problem gambling are noticing an alarming rise in calls to their helplines.
  — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
• The measure’s proponents point to alarming levels of carnage on L.A. streets.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• That’s an alarming trend for the platform, which likes to market itself as the place where live conversation occurs.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• The recent news of a door plug on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 blowing out after takeoff is alarming for all who fly.
  — Debra Katz, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Meanwhile, witnesses on the tour group King had joined recounted the alarming moments King took off.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 20 July 2023
• Most notably in the South, where xylazine-positive overdose deaths have climbed by an alarming 1127%, according to the DEA.
  — Ashley Schwartz-Lavares, ABC News, 28 July 2023
• And one of my deep concerns is the alarming increase of Islamophobia and antisemitism and other forms of hate speech since the war here at home.
  — Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• The mother had called police after the teenage suspect made alarming comments to his sister, who then told her mother.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2023
• After spiking to alarming levels just last week, oil prices are suddenly in free-fall mode.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 5 Oct. 2023
• Spotting Spotting, or light bleeding, at any other time of the month than your period can be alarming.
  — Anthea Levi, Health, 16 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024