How to Use alarming in a Sentence

alarming

adjective
  • Food fads come and go with alarming speed.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The drops are alarming, of course.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And a very alarming grainy black and white video.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But at the start of the third year, a bone scan was alarming.
    — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
  • What is alarming about what Brown has done or said?
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • But this is just the tip of an alarming iceberg.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But this is just the tip of an alarming iceberg.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But the body politic is cheating the test with alarming ease.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Apr. 2025
  • That risk has reached alarming heights in recent years.
    — Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Even more alarming is the age and size of the sharks being caught.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The red zone issues are more alarming.
    — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This franchise has had an alarming rate of good-news first days.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Still, these pitfalls are easy to find alarming.
    — Faye Flam, Scientific American, 7 May 2026
  • The effort comes amid an alarming rise in gray whale deaths in the bay.
    — ABC News, 20 May 2026
  • The drops are alarming (second most in the league).
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This is alarming, since the car is over a decade old and has the mileage to prove it.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
  • That makes the decline in checks alarming.
    — Tony Plohetski, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Frogs are dying at alarming rates.
    — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But nobody knows why the dogs are dying at such an alarming rate.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • According to a new study, the news there is alarming as well.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 July 2024
  • Which is why Wednesday was so alarming.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • Now the risk is back on the rise, as an alarming new nuclear age dawns.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • That conduct is both alarming and telling of his intent.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • To achieve this, Sting is much more than a load of alarming balloons.
    — David Szondy may 24, New Atlas, 24 May 2026
  • But this final talk of the episode is their most honest and alarming.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The trend that was most alarming to me was that young people stopped coming out.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • Then again, the way the wetlands have been reclaimed too is alarming.
    — Maggie Andresen, Scientific American, 17 Dec. 2021
  • These numbers are part of an alarming long-term decline.
    — Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But the field is hurtling in an alarming direction.
    — Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Even more alarming is where the cuts are happening.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025

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