Sentence examples for alarmingly from inspiring English sources

With feelings running high, the sight of a Network Rail hi-vis jacket beside a level crossing attracts the attention of a man who comes striding across a Suffolk beet field, brandishing an alarmingly large pair of secateurs.

That's the nub of everything that's wrong with this document, which is alarmingly intended to be a template for the UK house building industry, a means "to ensure we achieve high quality design," in the words of housing minister Brandon Lewis.

De Gea and Rooney should be sure of their places but in between it's difficult to find a single Manchester United player who is undroppable, and this is still an alarmingly chaotic side for a manager considered such a master strategist.

Even to an untrained eye, the rolling hills of Mbulu district in northern Tanzania are alarmingly bare.

Stuart Broad and James Anderson are very, very good but it's the second string when the pressure on the opposition eases quite alarmingly.

On our two-hour drive, we passed (not to mention countless skid marks, some ending alarmingly at the foot of the divider) a dozen cars with flat or blown-out tyres – proof that Ajay's fears were well-founded.

A report by the health information provider Dr Foster has suggested that 19 hospital trusts have alarmingly high death rates and hundreds of people are dying needlessly because of substandard NHS care.

Percy Grieve, also a QC, also a Conservative MP, found his career stymied by his independence of mind – and, in particular, his son says, by the difficulty whips found in putting him in any one box, not least because his wife was, alarmingly, half-French.

Alarmingly, the letter says, the system of actually prescribing medication is "dangerous".

But even when the sun was out in the final session there were signs of erratic bounce with some deliveries from the seamers squatting and one off-break from Moeen Ali that bounced alarmingly from a length to flick the glove of Watling, then 50, and provide a difficult chance for Jos Buttler which he spilled.

And when you get closer to home – state-level offices and local races – you can see policies rolling backwards years of progress, most notably in reproductive health, gay rights and, most alarmingly, voting rights.