Example Sentences

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A banner along a fence reads “Be Alarmed It’s a Jungle Out There!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Alarmed by three consecutive, destructive wildfire seasons in California, Ms Alexander, her husband and two young children piled into a camper van and drove across the country to Minnesota in 2020.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

Alarmed by what she was hearing, Amy Donofrio decided to do something.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024

Alarmed neighbors snapped photographs, some of which were recently obtained by The New York Times.

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

Alarmed at the deteriorating conditions, he called in the six-thousand-member Fourth Regiment of the Illinois Militia to bring things back under control.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler