How to Use alarmed in a Sentence

alarmed

adjective

• The alarmed judge cleared the press from the courtroom for good.
  — Nancy Bilyeau, Town & Country, 30 Sep. 2016
• The Times broke the news of the campaign in an alarmed-sounding report.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 27 Aug. 2019
• Fitch was more alarmed by the content of the message above the raccoon corpse.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• But then the resident grew alarmed when the man stopped and stared at his house.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 19 July 2019
• Should those troops leave too, Israel will be yet more alarmed.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Schuster was stunned by the request — and a little bit alarmed by the quick turnaround.
  — James B. Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018
• 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
• People look around, alarmed or thrilled, as farmers try to take down their tents, or hold on to them.
  — Edan Lepucki, The Atlantic, 12 July 2024
• Imagine if the alarmed staffers were to leave en masse tomorrow.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 21 Mar. 2018
• The friend, who gave only her first name, Elizabeth, was alarmed and said no.
  — Annie Correal, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Parents — my parents — are alarmed about the culture here.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• The false alarmed stirred panic across the island on Saturday.
  — CBS News, 13 Jan. 2018
• Bernard, increasingly alarmed, kills Dolores with a shot to the head.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 June 2018
• Until then, don’t be alarmed if your compass shifts by a degree or two.
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 8 Aug. 2019
• Aren’t supporters of this measure from the same party as those who were so deeply alarmed at the prospect of sharia law in the United States?
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• While 23 players were kept out of Thursday’s light practice, don’t be too alarmed.
  — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2024
• Many users were shocked and alarmed that there was no warning and that there were no privacy controls.
  — Zeynep Tufekci, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The Royals have not seemed alarmed about the severity of Moustakas’ injury.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 7 Sep. 2017
• 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
• But people who knew Cruz well grew so alarmed that more than one tried to warn authorities.
  — Sarah Blaskey, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• In the meantime, the defending Eastern champs simply don't sound alarmed.
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• LinkedIn is opting users into training its AI, the latest tech company to do so, even as privacy activists remain alarmed.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• From the perspective of these alarmed centrists, the nationalism of the far right poses a fundamental threat to the project of European integration.
  — Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024