alarming

And then the voice of a dispatcher crackles over the radio with those alarming words.

Yesterday morning, my in-box was stuffed to the gunwales with alarming messages alerting me to…to what?

As alarming as parents might find those results, Dr. Temple cautions against jumping to any drastic conclusions.

Any time there is a new outbreak of infectious disease, it can be alarming.

I glimpse an alarming, finger-length aluminum baton in her bag.

Little boys when decking themselves out with tall hat and monstrously big clothes seem to be trying to put on an alarming aspect.

In fact, his whole appearance was so alarming that Davy anxiously inquired of him what he had been eating.

"I see nothing alarming over there," said the Captain of the company, as he swept the other side of the stream with his glass.

Seeing the luggage piled “Olympus high,” so as to occasion an alarming oscillation.

At the same time alarming symptoms began to appear among the men of the sword.