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Example sentences for: alarming

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

King's book is rich in horrors: The photographs in which faces have been blotted out with ink smears or hysterically attacked with a pen are more immediately alarming than the ones from which figures have been surgically removed, and there are sobering unretouched group shots of NKVD bureaucrats and the prosecution staff of the Supreme Soviet, mass murderers who invariably look like factory hands or math teachers.
A possibly more alarming European health scare is a case of Ebola in Germany, which also featured on the Frankfurter Allgemeine 's front page.
Another example is the banking crisis, which grew to globally alarming proportions over an eight-year period before the government even admitted a problem existed.
The second piece of the puzzle was some alarming information regarding KSM.
Just recently, the International Herald Tribune carried an alarming piece in which Henry Tang, a prominent local industrialist and member of Tung's Cabinet, suggested tapping Hong Kong's considerable foreign exchange (some $69 billion in reserves, plus another $22 billion in a special fund from land sales) to develop southern China.