ALARMING in a Sentence

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Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALARMING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
alarming
 a.  frightening because of an awareness of danger
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for the consent of the nation.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
2  The ocean seeks to lead it astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its soul, its compass, which counsels it and always shows it the north.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
3  Their great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming than did their sinister stride through the darkness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
4  It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and still more alarming to think that it was perhaps alive.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA
5  The goodman talked with a rustic volubility, in which there was nothing alarming.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL
6  To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much so.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
7  Thus was solved the double and alarming problem of how to get out and how to get in.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
8  He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the wall, for fear of alarming her.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I—JEAN VALJEAN
9  His preoccupation must indeed have been very profound for him not to insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX—MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF ...
10  On this occasion once more, as had happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out before him, the one tempting, the other alarming.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—THE IMMORTAL LIVER 68
11  On the third day my mother sickened; her fever was accompanied by the most alarming symptoms, and the looks of her medical attendants prognosticated the worst event.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  In the heavy air of the room, and the heavy darkness that brooded in its remoter corners, I even had an alarming fancy that Estella and I might presently begin to decay.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XI
13  When I got home at night, and delivered this message for Joe, my sister "went on the Rampage," in a more alarming degree than at any previous period.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
14  I had become aware of an alarming growling overhead, and had probably expressed the fact in my countenance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
15  Herbert was rarely there less frequently than three times in a week, and he never brought me a single word of intelligence that was at all alarming.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
Example Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
16  He returned to the airport to find his car alarm going off.
17  I didn't tell her that he was late because I didn't want to cause her any alarm.
18  Fire fighters responded to a false alarm at one of the college dormitories.
19  The noise would have provoked alarm and neighbourly concern.
20  There is growing public alarm at this increase in crime.
21  Three fire engines rushed to the school only to discover it was a false alarm.
22  Fitting a burglar alarm is the most effective way to increase home security.
23  He stepped forward and she backed away in alarm.
24  We were in the middle of an exam when the fire alarm went off.
25  In my San Francisco neighborhood, some one has a car alarm.
26  If there's any trouble, raise/sound the alarm by pulling the emergency cord.
27  It will produce the hard data needed to analyse resource utilisation and will trigger an alarm mechanism allowing managers to control access.
28  I felt a growing sense of alarm when he did not return that night.
29  I've set my alarm clock for six tomorrow.
30  I forgot to set the burglar alarm.