On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Worried. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as disquieted or distressed and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Worried meaning
Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
Synonyms of Worried
Using Worried
- The main meaning on this page is: Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
- Useful related words include: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset.
- In the example corpus, worried often appears in combinations such as: worried about, worried that, is worried.
Context around Worried
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Worried
- In this selection, "worried" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, angry, cent, sometimes, stressed and particularly stand out and add context to how "worried" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a man worried about his and and not worried about what. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "worried" sits close to words such as francisco, veteran and recognized, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with worried
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everybody seems worried, they are all worried about stuff so much. (11 words)
If one is worried about Ream, one should be doubly worried about Dara Sakor. (14 words)
A person can be worried and still not realize just how worried they should be. (15 words)
He just worried that his 2-year-old son, Deonte Jr., would forget him — “I’m worried I’ll come back and it’s, ‘Hi, my name is Dad” — or that it would cross his kids’ minds that he didn’t love them since he would be gone for so long. (51 words)
We felt bad for a week or two until we suddenly realized that he had it 100 percent wrong: When we do it right we help people better express themselves; they’re not looking angry/worried/stressed when they’re not angry/worried/stressed. (44 words)
On a scale of 1 to 10, like extremely worried is a 10, and 1’s not worried at all, I’m a very optimistic person, but I’m probably feeling in the 7 or 8 range of amount of worry. (41 words)
Nearly half of Americans (48 percent) said they are “very worried” or “somewhat worried” when asked, “How worried are you that violent protests and riots will come to your community? (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
When children, aged 10 to 17, were asked how worried they were about how much money their family had, 52% said they “sometimes” worried, while one in five (20%) said they “always” or “often” worried about it.
Nearly half of Americans (48 percent) said they are “very worried” or “somewhat worried” when asked, “How worried are you that violent protests and riots will come to your community?
A person can be worried and still not realize just how worried they should be.
I wasn't worried about my bag so much, I was worried about myself and whether she had a knife and if she would hurt me.
Putin clearly isn't worried about losing the upcoming election, nor is he likely worried about losing the war to Ukraine.
So I think that’s how you keep the peace and everybody moving, like everybody worried about themselves and not worried about what someone else is.
They are worried that Trump and his team will succeed in making the U.S. and world safer where career swamp creatures, who only seem to be worried about their jobs, have failed.
We felt bad for a week or two until we suddenly realized that he had it 100 percent wrong: When we do it right we help people better express themselves; they’re not looking angry/worried/stressed when they’re not angry/worried/stressed.
As my colleague, Samantha Selinger-Morris helpfully pointed out, we shouldn't be worried about men in dresses; we should be worried about men dressing up in Nazi costumes or blackface.
He just worried that his 2-year-old son, Deonte Jr., would forget him — “I’m worried I’ll come back and it’s, ‘Hi, my name is Dad” — or that it would cross his kids’ minds that he didn’t love them since he would be gone for so long.
If one is worried about Ream, one should be doubly worried about Dara Sakor.
Leicester lockdown: Hancock 'worried' about practices at clothing factoriesHealth Secretary Matt Hancock says he is "worried" about poor social distancing in some factories.
On a scale of 1 to 10, like extremely worried is a 10, and 1’s not worried at all, I’m a very optimistic person, but I’m probably feeling in the 7 or 8 range of amount of worry.
Over half of respondents are still worried about their firm, but more importantly, more than a third are worried about making a living period.
The survey found the majority of financial worries were reported by Canadians living in the Prairies, where 68 per cent worried about job loss and 72 per cent worried about their financials.
Wanless added: “When we went into the pandemic, we were worried about rising levels of abuse and neglect, and we were worried particularly about the risks children were facing online.
All we're worried about is playing well and getting prepared for the World Cup, that's all we're worried about.
Everybody seems worried, they are all worried about stuff so much.
Everybody was so worried, and my manager was worried and they’re like, “We wanna cancel.
He isn’t a man worried about his image or even the world at large; he’s worried about his family.
Common combinations with worried
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- worried about 106×
- worried that 30×
- is worried 17×
- be worried 14×
- are worried 14×
- was worried 12×
- worried and 9×
- not worried 8×
- were worried 8×
- worried the 7×