How to Use alarmed in a Sentence

alarmed

adjective

• Fitch was more alarmed by the content of the message above the raccoon corpse.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• But then in 2018, there seems to have been a shift towards alarmed, concerned, and cautious.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2020
• Among the alarmed taxpayers were folks with long time roots in Croydon.
  — Peter Greene, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• That is, aside from a few alarmed members of my family.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• But the shrill warnings that left Patil so alarmed had actually helped carry the day for the BJP along the coast.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• Buried within it was also a roadmap of sorts of where the mining is proposed, and who is most alarmed about it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
• The North Atlantic had hot spots that alarmed scientists.
  — Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• The throng of people that poured into the Grand Canyon on Oct. 24 disturbed other hikers and alarmed park rangers along their route.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2021
• Akia’s family became alarmed when the 21-year-old failed to show up to her own baby shower on May 3.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2019
• Those in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Sumy—places that were under relentless shelling from Russia—sounded the most alarmed.
  — Tabassum Barnagarwala, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2022
• The more his left fingertips probed, the more alarmed his expression became.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
• The report said the woman likely walked out of the building through an alarmed door without tripping the alarm and then could not get back inside.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2023
• For decades now, alarmed scientists have been crying out for action as things have gotten worse and worse.
  — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 13 July 2021
• But don't get too alarmed, because my legs have always been ultra skinny.
  — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• This euphemistic tsk-tsk projects the prim censure of a mother alarmed that her daughter’s low-cut blouse is too revealing for church.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Lewis drew his alarmed, and alarming, inspiration from the would-be autocrats of his era.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• The students, staff and parents of the academy were outraged, alarmed and resolute.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• The suspect suddenly fell to the ground and began shaking, blocking the walkway to the store and causing others to become alarmed.
  — cleveland, 9 July 2021
• Trying to prepare for a deadly flu pandemic had left them more alarmed.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• People sitting at the nearby tables looked around, alarmed and confused.
  — New York Times, 24 May 2022
• Don’t become alarmed if at first your partner is resistant to the idea, even offended.
  — Lisa Zeiderman, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Sequoia lovers are deeply alarmed about the threat posed by California wildfires.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• Across the Hudson River in New Jersey, officials seemed less alarmed.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
• Ryan’s older son, who had been in his father’s home that night, told Tracy about the police visit, and Tracy became alarmed.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2021
• The New York Times carried no fewer than five alarmed articles about the purchase on its homepage last Thursday.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Oct. 2022
• The scores of tree trunks can conceal a stalking tyrannosaur all too easily, with perhaps only the snap of a branch or the screech of an alarmed bird to provide any warning.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2022
• Each vision, as in Seymour’s alarmed search, fuels another in this book.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• After Ibrahim began posting pictures that day, one of the other officers sent an alarmed message in the group chat.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
• In 2020, Illinois church groups and state lawmakers reviewed nearly a decade’s worth of data and became alarmed.
  — Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022
• Ajarian was alarmed to realize that he’d gotten used to Jake being gone.
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024