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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:

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.
It warned that the rise of Jörg Haider, leader of the Freedom Party, is no less alarming because he may not be a neo-Nazi.
And Kissinger is popping up on TV screens with alarming frequency, delivering his gloomy assessments of the Kosovo bombing and the frost in U.S.-China relations.
The "Rule of Law" piece, by a former Reagan administration deputy attorney general, argues that "it is time for a sober reassessment of the power we have concentrated in the hands of prosecutors and the alarming absence of effective checks and balances to prevent the widespread abuse of that power."
At press time, Hurricane Bret had not moved near enough the Texas coast to merit any front-page coverage, but its alarming increase in speed suggests it could grab big headlines by Monday.