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: feeling a sense of danger : urgently worried, concerned, or frightened
I was alarmed to see how sick she looked.
And what followed was not a miracle but a … model of how tough government, cooperative businessmen and a very alarmed public can make a dirty world clean again.—
William Oscar Johnson
William Oscar Johnson2
: equipped with an alarm
an alarmed door
Most exits were locked and alarmed, and employees had to show ID badges when they entered lab buildings.—Jennifer Nagorka
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Examples of alarmed in a Sentence
the Mohawks were the trapper's friends, so he was not the least bit alarmed at the sight of the band of Mohawk hunters
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The judge became alarmed after Baldwin’s attorneys alleged misconduct, including alleged collusion between the prosecutor and Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies to conceal potential evidence — a bag of ammunition — from defense attorneys.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2024
Should progressives be more alarmed by Donald Trump’s threat to the Constitution or by the Constitution’s threat to progressivism?
—George F. Will, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Before getting too alarmed, consider whether there’s been a major stressful event that could lead to the onset of temporary hair loss, Dr. Scott advises.
—Rina Raphael, SELF, 26 June 2024
Rather than assuaging the concerns of anxious voters, alarmed donors, political allies, and media critics, the Biden campaign seems to have made things worse through a combination of evasion and hubris, clumsily waving away concerns over the President’s age.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 2 July 2024
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Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2024
Should progressives be more alarmed by Donald Trump’s threat to the Constitution or by the Constitution’s threat to progressivism?
—George F. Will, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Before getting too alarmed, consider whether there’s been a major stressful event that could lead to the onset of temporary hair loss, Dr. Scott advises.
—Rina Raphael, SELF, 26 June 2024
Rather than assuaging the concerns of anxious voters, alarmed donors, political allies, and media critics, the Biden campaign seems to have made things worse through a combination of evasion and hubris, clumsily waving away concerns over the President’s age.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 2 July 2024
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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