The phrase "alarm grew" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an increasing sense of worry or concern about a situation.
Example: "As the news unfolded, the alarm grew among the residents about the approaching storm."
Alternatives: "concern escalated" or "anxiety increased".
Then the game started and new alarm grew over C.C. Sabathia's shrinking fastball, Joel Sherman writes in The Post.
Within hours President Obama was notified, and the alarm grew over the weekend, as the munitions were loaded onto vehicles near Syrian air bases.
But then alarm grew as they started falling off chairs and tables and inviting theatregoers to take swigs out of their bottles.
As alarm grew at HSBC's London HQ, plans were made for the toxic parts of the Geneva bank to be quietly dumped.
As alarm grew among residents of the small municipality of Astorga over Thiem's disappearance, warning bells went off again last week when a local woman jogging near a popular resting spot for pilgrims was approached by two men in a car.
But as the doomsday alarm grew shrill, few noticed that on this same day in Pennsylvania, 27percentt of Republican primary voters didn't just tell pollsters they would defect from their party's standard-bearer; they went to the polls, gas prices be damned, to vote against Mr. McCain.
Hollande has pledged more security assistance for Tunisia as alarm grows about the spread of Isis in north Africa.
As alarm grows over British military deaths in Afghanistan – "Brown's dereliction," shouts the Daily Telegraph – David Cameron has weighed in to condemn helicopter shortages.
With alarm growing in Democratic circles over Obama's reëlection strategy — James Carville was the latest big-name to weigh in on the subject — I have jotted down some thoughts on where it should be focussed.
With alarm growing in Democratic circles over Obama's reëlection strategy James Carville was the latest big-name to weigh in on the subject—I have jotted down some thoughts on where it should be focussed.
By John Cassidy June 13 , 2012With alarm growing in Democratic circles over Obama's reëlection strategy — James Carville was the latest big-name to weigh in on the subject — I have jotted down some thoughts on where it should be focussed.
