Similar words: alarmist, farming, charming, swarming, disarming, global warming, subsistence farming, alarm. Meaning: [ə'lɑːmɪŋ] adj. causing alarm or fear.
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91. In 1930 he succeeded to the earldom and to an alarming load of debt.
92. The approach is extremely alarming to first-time passengers as the aircraft constantly swoops over ridges and precipices.
93. By now there were more serious difficulties affecting Charlie's behaviour that became considerably more alarming.
94. Then he has to cope with the alarming vocal displays of the old males, designed to put him off his game.
95. Something must have happened; something alarming enough to send the Prince scurrying from the ball.
96. There followed an alarming period in which the carefully contrived economic recovery and social peace created under the Callaghan government disintegrated.
97. Baggage seems to go missing with alarming frequency on these flights.
98. They called each other abusive names, which might have been alarming if I had not heard it all before.
99. With its warhead replaced by a Mercury capsule, the rocket had an alarming tendency to fail during flight.
100. I had liked to think that Richard Gott knew better,[http://sentencedict.com/alarming.html] so his infatuation with Chavez is alarming.
101. For hard-liners, on both sides, the rapid movement toward a new world structure was alarming.
102. To make these figures seem less alarming, banks prefer to quote rates on a monthly basis.
103. There has been an alarming increase in the number of shootings on our streets.
104. The big, black mameluke was an eye-catching sight but the beasts which went before him on silver chains were really alarming.
105. Oil is always particularly alarming since a very small quantity will quickly cover a large area of water with an unmistakable iridescence.
106. They had always found buccaneering terribly alarming, and felt seasick at the slightest sign of bad weather.
107. So alarming is the frequency of adolescent childbirth that President Clinton recently announced a community-oriented campaign to prevent teen pregnancy.
108. All this would not have been too bad but for the fact that our rope was going rotten at an alarming pace.
109. Even more alarming is the feeling that the West End stage is gradually turning into a repository for old Hollywood movies.
110. Well-paying jobs for unskilled labor are disappearing at an alarming rate.
111. As I took in the traffic thundering by beneath me and relived in my mind my alarming experience, my trepidation returned.
112. It was an alarming experience for the very first aid workers to reach them.
113. Cholera is spreading through the refugee camps at an alarming rate.
114. London is expanding outwards at an alarming rate, swallowing up large areas of beautiful countryside.
115. These new reinforcements arrived only just before a resumption of activities which were swiftly to thin their ranks to an alarming extent.
116. The industrial scene thus looked much more alarming in the early months of 1 978.
117. But alarming as the recent revelations are, the message should not be to forget about life insurance.
118. Even more alarming is the increase in child porn sites on the Internet.
119. It would be shameful and alarming if the United Kingdom professed a deliberate intention to contract out of recognising that difference.
120. What makes this alarming is that we are all living longer and retiring earlier.
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