alarming
Example Sentences
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If this alarming drop-off is not addressed urgently, it will prove terminal for Rangers' title hopes and intensify the pressure on Rohl from a demanding support.
From BBC
Hegseth’s rhetoric is so alarming that it sometimes eclipses how he also can come across like an eight-year-old boy inventing dialogue for the villain in his G.I.
From Salon
Across conflicts around the world, journalists continue to be injured, detained and killed at alarming rates.
From Los Angeles Times
Our critic called the film “visually alarming and nerve-racking.”
But on 6 August last year, 999 operators received a strange and alarming call from the boy - who said he had decided to confess after being unable to escape his back garden.
From BBC
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