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How to use distressed in a sentence

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She sounded distressed, and he could almost hear her voice broke slightly as she gave him the address of a police precinct in New York City.
His actions have distressed the great many journalists who go to pains every day to uphold the lofty ideals of their chosen craft.
She was standing by a trunk we had in the living room, looking a tad distressed.
I confess that, by that point, I was too distressed to listen to the fourth talk at all.
His eyes were tearing, and she could see a wrecked, distressed look in them and could tell he wanted nothing more to do with this.
In short, if you want a champion for a distressed building or threatened institution, Rhys Jones is your man.
Jason had sent a text message to his father earlier that day saying that he was distressed after a row with his girlfriend.
When she tested it, she was distressed to see that those whom she sought were on her bed, not at camp.
He was clearly distressed and said that three days after the event with the town reduced to matchsticks, very little help had arrived.
So as I'm talking to a customer, a well-heeled looking but visibly distressed woman barks at me, asking me where the entrance to the pool is.
Yesterday he had seen, for the first time, the angry and distressed faces of the people he was meant to rule.
The girl threw the toffees back at him and went to find her mother in a distressed state, the court was told.
The shepherds and shepherdesses, distressed with the cold, sought Krishna for refuge.
People with binge eating disorder are extremely distressed by their binge eating.
In Mexico, people are distressed by the possibility that biopharmaceutical corn could be introduced in the country.
The poor little mite was obviously distressed and was hobbling around on its good leg, often resting on the ground.
Others have come home deeply distressed and troubled by what they witnessed.
The dogs were casting about, in search of a scent that was not there, obviously distressed.
They were a group of men who were very distressed, very cast down by their illness and its difficulties.
A number of villagers had gathered outside their house to lend moral support to the distressed family.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Camilla, distressed, hung her head, and would have forborne making any answer.
The zaddik, however miserly he might be, had to assist the poor and distressed with his revenues.
It appeared that the captain of the galiot was much distressed on this account.
A word of consolation, a caress, even from her mother, would have distressed her.
He looked down like a compassionate mastiff upon a distressed Italian grayhound.
I was so vexed, so distressed, because it was almost sunset and the boar seemed to be going strongly and faster than a grayhound.
He looked actually distressed when, with a wristy movie actor's gesture of finality, I gave him the whole of a dollar bill.
For some reason or other she saw that Mr. Hitchings looked greatly distressed.
Often they may live peaceably, anguished with doubt, and distressed for humanity.
But that which especially distressed her now was that she had not made a confidante of Hubertine.
It does not aim at convicting a hostile disbelief, but at succouring a distressed faith.
Looking at it in this lightand there seemed no other way of correlating this literature with human lifeOld Mole was distressed.
He happened however to have on his horseman's corslet, so that he was distressed.
Margaret, distressed at the day's beginning, followed the Bournemouth steamer with her eyes.
Philip was vanquished, and he knew it, but he was not daunted, he was not distressed.
George was glad to have some one to talk to, but he was distressed by this narration of his landlady.
I was vexed and puzzled, and distressed, too, after sending John away as I had done.
Jenny, being little and svelte, was distressed by the prevalent sumptuousness.
She was so distressed to find that she no longer had strength to resist her pride.
When he at last reappeared he was white as wax, distressed, anxious, but still resolute.
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