alarming

Example Sentences

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Delivery robots are both disappointing in their reality and alarming in their symbolic implication.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

The lack of response after Sunderland went ahead was alarming, Regis Le Bris's side, inspired by the experience and quality of Granit Xhaka, closed out the win with minimum anxiety.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Government inspections of nursing homes “found alarming instances of inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs and revealed vulnerabilities in care that have implications for the wider nursing home population,” the HHS inspector general’s office reports.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

An alarming nugget buried in the Treasury Department’s annual report External link on the federal government’s books from the last fiscal year: Its long-term liabilities exceed its expected revenue by tens of trillions of dollars.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

“The fever has assumed a most alarming appearance,” Rush wrote to his wife, Julia, who was summering in Princeton with their youngest children.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy