The phrase "a state of worry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or feeling of anxiety or concern about something.
Example: "After hearing the news, she found herself in a state of worry about her family's safety."
Alternatives: "a feeling of anxiety" or "a condition of concern."
You are very stressed out and in a state of worry that's almost impossible to shake.
With each minute you spend in a state of worry, you're robbing yourself of the opportunity to contribute to your own success and the world around you.
I can't do that if I'm in a state of worry.
He was in a state of worry, looking out the windows to see if anyone in the empty hotel was walking past.
If you had seen the signs, things might have turned out differently, but you also would have spent the last few days, weeks, months or years in a state of worry, which is a totally different kind of suffering.
Voters are still in a state of worry and shock over the sense that the bad economic news is settling and long term unemployment is a reality many families understand.
Lawrence made such laws unconstitutional, but they're still on the books in Texas, making a comeback in Louisiana, and contributing toward a legal climate of fear that leaves gay parents living in a state of constant worry.
I think a lot of struggling actors live in a state of constant worry and anxiety about how they're going to make it over the next several months or weeks.
The idea of global environmental catastrophe is so horrifyingly hard to grasp that the danger is we'll just be scared into a state of slightly worried stasis and basically continue doing everything we were doing before i.e., ignoring anything beyond our weekend.
The whole thing is so horrifyingly hard to grasp, that the danger is we'll just be scared into a state of slightly worried stasis, and basically continue doing everything we were doing before – i.e. ignoring anything beyond our weekend.
To parent these days is to live in a constant state of worry that the pathway a child must walk to a secure, successful life is being narrowed — by grade inflation, artificial intelligence, automation, globalization, sexism or whatever other ill is trending on any given day.
