Sentence examples for pretty alarmed from inspiring English sources

I think most people would be pretty alarmed at the conditions in which social workers have to leave a lot of children," he said.

"I am pretty alarmed to hear they [police] are not coming out," the nurse said, "because I think that mental health staff probably have too high a threshold for what they tolerate and manage themselves.

"I was pretty alarmed by that".

"The doctor was pretty alarmed when she got my X-ray back," says Bethany.

"The smoke was getting worse and worse and the horses were pretty alarmed with all the fire engine sirens and bangs from cars exploding". Later smoke began to engulf the stables and he helped to move the horses again as it was getting difficult to breathe.

Collectors must be pretty alarmed.

"They're pretty well-organized". Alarmed growers are beginning to invest thousands of dollars in private security guards and chain-link fences, hoping to deter thieves.

I alarmed people pretty much every time I mentioned my concussion.

The energetic among us took short day trips: to Goa Lawah, the sacred Bat Cave, where the noise of a million alarmed squeaks sounds like rushing water; the pretty walled village of Tenganan, where we bargained for "flaming cloth" Ikat weavings and the water palace at Tirtagangga, where we swam in pools fed by clear mountain streams.

While these are not a necessity, your daughter may feel less alarmed about her first period if there is something pretty associated with it.

On Thursday, the head of the inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, alarmed residents and survivors by saying that the basis of the inquiry "would be pretty well limited to the problems surrounding the start of the fire and its rapid development, in order to make recommendations as to how this sort of thing can be prevented in the future".