Sentence examples for alarming habit from inspiring English sources

Their facial reactions each day showed that their concentration scarcely wavered during the marathon (though one had the initially alarming habit of listening with her eyes shut).

This made sense: one of her habits — the most alarming habit she had, indeed — was to play solitaire at night at the dining table, under the stained-glass chandelier.

I'm beginning to wonder if she really is Sofia Coppola (her husband has an alarming habit of turning up in weird disguises or staging fights in front of journalists).

He seems to have been tolerated as the town eccentric, alarming in habits (daily visits to photograph at the local pool) and appearance (an unkempt beard and ratty sweater) but harmless enough.

It was quite terrifying .According to this alarming diagnosis, it was the ingrained habit of co-operation within the EU that prevented the situation from degenerating and older and nastier habits from re-emerging.

When Joanna Kay and her now-husband were dating, her thin body and bird-like eating habits weren't terribly alarming to him.

The prevalence of obesity as a consequence of the convergence between sedentary lifestyle, changes in dietary habits and genetic predisposition has increased at an alarming rate in recent years.

President Trump's outlandish untruthfulness, an increasingly chaotic media landscape, and the decline of traditional habits of political speech unquestionably represent a new and deeply alarming threat to public discourse and the foundations of democratic government.

There is a clear shift in smoking habits among the Middle Eastern population with a recent and alarming increase in the prevalence of waterpipe (shisha) smoking.

And if you go to the doctor too much, it's seen as a sign of weakness or that you are not strong enough to manage things on your own.' An alarming feature of this 'stiff upper lip' (P15, female, change in bowel/bladder habits, persistent difficulty swallowing), was the extent to which people put up with debilitating symptoms.

The proposed alarming strategy is able to achieve a balance between alarming accuracy and alarming sensitivity.