Sentence examples for alarmingly close from inspiring English sources

They have already come alarmingly close.

Stephens was a ferrety fellow, often in poor health, and Haley is an alarmingly close match.

To the right, through an open door, we see the blue ocean, calm but alarmingly close.

His two guests were Truman Capote and Mickey Spillane, who sat alarmingly close to each other.

In the final pages there isn't just a forced Thatcherism but something alarmingly close to on-your-bike Tebbitry.

Winifred ran the festival in the 1930s after Siegfried's death, and became alarmingly close to Adolf Hitler.

Yet at times it was an alarmingly close-run thing, and each new nuclear state multiplies the dangers.

Nor did they mention that while getting alarmingly closer, Iran does not yet have an actual weapon — reportedly, a computer worm that appears to have been worked on by Israel and the United States is believed to have been a significant setback.

Shot from a distance and also alarmingly up close, it captures the major drama in the crowd and the microdramas onstage as Ms. Ross navigated a fierce rainstorm that eventually shut down the show, forcing her to try again the next night, when it went off without a hitch.

The timescale is alarmingly tight.

Sport's history is bleakened when we remember those defeated by East German women swimmers in the days of Communism, or by certain American athletes whose body profiles thickened alarmingly in close-season training.