Example sentences for: alarmed

How can you use “alarmed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1989, under pressure from groups alarmed by the destruction of African elephant herds, President Bush banned the import of ivory.

  • '] Officials at the Ministry for Cultural Recidivism, alarmed that the proliferation of the posters could create an unfortunate conception in the minds of French children that the imperfect subjunctive tense of the verb jumbo frankfurter dated all the way back to Rabelaisian times--thus lending the expression a certain historical pedigree--immediately ordered the copywriter's arrest.

  • I'd be alarmed if West were drafting Bradley's policy positions.

  • Those of us who rely on the New York Times for moral guidance on all important issues were deeply alarmed by this sermonette.

  • It was recently restored after a 1997 fire that left the city, and the nation, alarmed at how close it came to being completely destroyed.


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