alarmingly

How To Use alarmingly In A Sentence

• The suicide rate among men between the ages of 16 and 25 has risen alarmingly.
• More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the Hierarchy.
• One early high note goes alarmingly astray. Times, Sunday Times
• Then, somewhat more alarmingly, there is the hunger for a voluntarist transcendence of the limitations of history, the fantasy of escaping from the inextricable complications and complexities of the past into some pure state of agency.
• Southern Cross, the troubled social care provider, posted half-yearly results yesterday that have implications far beyond the pockets of its investors, or even the 31,000 residents of its 750 care homes, and the staff who work in them, for whom the future is alarmingly uncertain. Editorial | Social care: Cross purposes
• First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter.
• Me and Keith got caught by an alarmingly large gust of wind and ended up in the drink.
• The rate of violent crime is alarmingly high: in 2004 over 2000 murders were committed as well as countless vehicle hold-ups carried out at gun point.
• Reservoir levels may look alarmingly low but water chiefs are confident the region is not facing a crisis.
• A big drop followed, down over rough rock and scree to the Bealach an Fhuarian from where a great greyish-white buttress reared alarmingly.