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How To Use alarming In A Sentence

• It appeared the family had never been properly screened by the DIB, which was alarming given that its activities were supposedly well monitored, he added.
• The suicide rate among men between the ages of 16 and 25 has risen alarmingly.
• More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54. Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism?
• What is so alarming about the commissioner's report is the revelation that so many relatively minor inroads on civil liberties have gone unremarked and unnoticed.
• On the surface, the report could appear alarming.
• It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end. The Judge
• We have an alarming number of distressing cases in our files of youngsters, families and old folk who need us.
• The alarming increase in media oligopolies has led to a subsequent decline in any need for public accountability on the part of media corporations.
• Campaigners will step up their fight to dual the A120 after reflecting on alarming new figures.
• The alarming trend for desperate medical sector docs and surgeons to reduce waiting lists by doing non-urgent but easy procedures first is life threatening and wrong.