How to Use worrying in a Sentence
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Too much could go wrong, and that alone is maybe the largest worrying sign.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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The frame can flex a bit, but not to a worrying degree.
—Mark Knapp, PCMAG, 10 June 2024
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This decreased the sound, but gave him a worrying gait.
—Dave Eggers, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2023
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But the half-court defense was more worrying, truth be told.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
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The latest twist in the Twitter tale since Elon Musk bought the company is one of the most worrying to date.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
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What was once a trickle of worrying hints is now a torrent of abuse.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2024
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But there are a few worrying signs on the horizon—even for Tesla.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 July 2023
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Julio has a permanent sulk on his face and a worrying stoop in his gait.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 July 2024
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But the most worrying lesson from this research may lie in the differences between the time of the corals and today.
—Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
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But more worrying, at least for Musk, are the growing calls to boycott his products.
—George Pendle, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
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No more worrying about payroll or chasing the next big deal.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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No less worrying to Biden was the reaction—or lack of it—to Trump’s incessant threats.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
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But while Harris maintains the lead, 66% of those surveyed said the country is on the wrong track – a worrying sign for the vice president.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
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But even here in the Barren Isles, the Vezo are starting to see a worrying decline in fish numbers.
—Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
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Even more worrying than their lack of wins, Wolves and Southampton only have a single point each.
—Steve Price, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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No more worrying about wins and losses or checking good 'ol Tankathon.
—Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
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The worrying matter, though, is what happens to those crowds if the strike is still going on in September.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
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That’s the big ask of such films: tucking majorly worrying world events (a stock market crash?
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025
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But a spring is a different story, and might be a little bit more worrying.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 Apr. 2023
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In some ways, the most worrying numbers concern his playing time.
—Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Other questions raised by the ad are complex and worrying.
—James Vincent, The Verge, 25 Apr. 2023
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Perhaps the more worrying trend, though, is what’s happening in front of the goaltending.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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There are a few that fight the seagulls when the gulls try to steal a pizza crust that all the pigeons have been worrying, and there are a few that hang back and wait until the gulls are driven off.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
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But there are some key differences that make today a bit more worrying.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
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But the story that is emerging as perhaps the most worrying of all is the murkiness of the hostage situation.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2023
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By far the most worrying thing is that women are not getting maternal care.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2024
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But to some, his vision sounds more like a worrying regression.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
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Cape Town's paramedics have long had their work cut out responding to emergencies in one of the world's most crime-prone cities, but over the past decade, a worrying shift has taken place.
—Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 19 May 2024
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This paltry increase is even more worrying given drastic price cuts seen in the EV market in 2024.
—Ashley Nunes, Boston Herald, 7 June 2025
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From Beijing’s perspective, there are plenty of worrying signs.
—Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
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