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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
Jennifer NagorkaExamples 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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When Elias Manolis started experiencing extreme fatigue early last year, his parents were alarmed, but not surprised.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
As people became alarmed about the possibility of rising skin cancer rates, nations met in 1987 to pass the Montreal Protocol and phase out CFCs.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
On the campaign trail, school board members and alarmed parents predicted marijuana would increasingly find its way into the hands of children and stoned drivers would cause more traffic collisions.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
In the 1850s, company managers were alarmed to find out shipping workers were opening crates and marking P&G containers with stars to help coworkers who couldn’t read.
—Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
As people became alarmed about the possibility of rising skin cancer rates, nations met in 1987 to pass the Montreal Protocol and phase out CFCs.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 22 Apr. 2026
On the campaign trail, school board members and alarmed parents predicted marijuana would increasingly find its way into the hands of children and stoned drivers would cause more traffic collisions.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
In the 1850s, company managers were alarmed to find out shipping workers were opening crates and marking P&G containers with stars to help coworkers who couldn’t read.
—Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for alarmed
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“Alarmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmed. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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