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alarming English

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alarming

If something is alarming, it is surprising and it makes you worry. We heard some very alarming information about the number of fights at school.

alarming

frightening because of an awareness of danger

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Simple sentences

Alarming news came from the suburbs.
It's very alarming.
That's particularly alarming.
Manias can be alarming.

Movie subtitles

The drought goes on and the water cistern sinks to an alarming level.
Destruction of buildingf or machinery with the object of alarming a group of persons inspiring public uneasiness.
There is alarming news that women's skirts are going to become shorter already they are 6 inches above the ankle.
Miss Bennet, a report has reached me of a most alarming nature!
And what's so alarming about the tower, Miss Connell?
I can only say your uncle has an alarming way. of welcoming me to the family.
We're facing an alarming situation if the price of beef continues to decline.
Oh, dear. This is alarming. Can we get away from the service?
That way you can have your wife meet you there without alarming her.
No, all we've got is the name of the bakery, an order describing the design, its destination, the date, and the alarming amount of cash delivered to pay for it.
Gentleman, please let's not bring up alarming theories.
And very alarming, isn't it?
Without it alarming anyone.
It's only the wee things outside that are, well, alarming.
This deficit has grown to alarming proportions.
Colonel, it's nothing alarming. - it's only Shakespeare.
I wouldn't have gone to the tower in the first place. And what's so alarming about the tower, Miss Connell?
Lately I've been subject to the most alarming dizzy spells.
Sometimes, an alarming effect.
You don't find this alarming, do you?
Hush, dear. There's no sense alarming the rest of the family.
He wants to prove his point. But there's something alarming in his work, and that's his relationship with reality.
Alarming!
The figures are taking an alarming direction.
It was quite alarming for me.
Nothing serious, of course, but mildly alarming.
They say that very serious things are happening but they keep them secret to avoid alarming the public.
The results might be too alarming.
I found your words very disturbing, sir, because I realize I've taken a different path from yours and I find that quite alarming.
Alarming news.
That's really alarming!
I have never noticed anything alarming in Benilde.
There are no alarming developments.
That letter to mother was rather alarming.
Look at the numbers and you can see how alarming it is!
In Moscow alone, it's alarming!
Note, if you will, the extreme enlargement of the skull right upper limb, which is totally useless, the alarming curvature of the spine.

News and current affairs

The answer to these alarming developments is not nostalgia.
As a result, its stock market is frothy, and it is experiencing an alarming property boom.
So far, the message from the most recent tables is not too alarming for the incumbents.
The most alarming development is how deep the ideological vetting now cuts, invading areas that once were immune to this kind of manipulation.
Recent history is replete with alarming examples of dictators and would be dictators who refuse to recognize when their time has run out.
Yes, there are some alarming elements in Russian policy, mostly because Russia has never really known where it begins and where it ends.
When Blix headed the IAEA before the Gulf War of 1991, he blithely assured the world, after several inspections, that nothing alarming was happening in Iraq.
As a result, the percentage of dropouts is rising at an alarming rate.
A report from Australia's National Centre for Climate Restoration is no less alarming.
Do these figures reflect alarming imbalances or are they the usual signs of a boom?
Fortunately, the situation appears to be less alarming.
But these ostensibly alarming figures can be misleading.
Translating CO2 into an illogical and inefficient measure of forest cover seems intended mainly to ensure that an alarming message results.
On this occasion, the socialist government of Lionel Jospin belatedly tried to summon a bit more firmness than usual, but otherwise it's a familiar story: alarming to foreigners, but not very surprising or disturbing to the French.
But coming as it does only one month after the alarming Russian-Georgian confrontation, it may offer real hope that tensions in the volatile Caucasus region can be eased.
Ratios in the northern states are particularly alarming: only Himachal Pradesh now has a ratio of girls to boys above 900.
From a legal and human-rights point of view, the US drone program is even more alarming.
Nor is it alarming.
Moreover, though the US unemployment rate has fallen, this largely reflects an alarming decline in labor-force participation, with more than 6.5 million Americans since 2006 having given up looking for work.
Much quoted since, this alarming statistic turns out to have been based on a single, unreferenced bullet-point from a report by an environmental think tank.
The information was incomplete, but it was solid - and alarming.
LONDON - If a clear signal was needed that the European Union is falling apart at an alarming rate, Hungary's construction of razor-wire fences along the border with its fellow EU member Croatia is it.

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