Words similar to alarming

Example sentences for: alarming

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

But it is alarming, to say the least, if agents trained in lying abroad are now moonlighting at home--even if they're telling the truth this time.
When the left came out on top in the elections of 1936, the situation deteriorated at an alarming rate.
In more moderate language, the Financial Times also described Seitz's revelations (from his forthcoming memoirs being serialized in the Sunday Telegraph of London) as "deeply alarming."
My wife and I were minding our own business in an unregulated apartment in the rapidly gentrifying East Village when we returned from work one day to a letter informing us that our already (to non-New Yorkers) alarming rent of $1,950 was going up $700.
The department has stocked up on pepper spray and smoke bombs and has given additional riot training to 45 officers, alarming many Hartford residents, tensely awaiting a prosecutor's decision about whether to charge a white officer who fatally shot a black 14-year-old in the back.