8 sentences with “alarming”

The lack of water in that region is alarming.

Deforestation in the Amazon has reached alarming levels in recent years.

Murders, robberies and home burglaries reached an alarming level.

The story of the traitor Treholt is an alarming tale of vanity, delusions of grandeur and greed. And it is alarming, because this could become the model for a new type of spy.

Later we were walking between the buildings, when suddenly another inmate approached us, alarming the Soviet officials by the fact that we were outside, and told us in English that he had to speak to us.

Faced with the alarming environmental situation on Earth, hydroponics - from the Greek hydros: water and the Latin ponos: to plant - has become the great hope, a panacea and even one of the instruments for the future colonisation of space.

Free blacks and mixed-race inhabitants of the colonies, once they heard of events in France, were quick to demand recognition of their own rights. Much more alarming to the members of the Assembly, the slaves of Saint-Domingue (who constituted approximately 90% of its population) also learned of the Revolution and its egalitarian promise.

In 1959, in Scientific American magazine, Price wrote: "It is a little alarming to learn that shortly before the decline of the Hellenistic civilisation, the ancient Greeks had come so close to our civilisation, and not only in thought, but also in scientific technology. We can be sure that this instrument is neither the first nor the last of its kind.