Sentence examples for as distraught from inspiring English sources

"I'm as distraught as the mothers who lost their children.

While children under 5 are the most vulnerable, young adults are as distraught as school-age children.

"We're just as distraught as anybody else," says Troy Newman, who runs Operation Rescue, a group that often picketed Dr Tiller's clinic in Wichita.

Moyes, whose press secretary shut down any questions about the imminent signing of Mata, did not look as distraught as he might have been, when he gave his press conference.

Drogba, presented with the trophy for France Footballer of the Year before kick-off, displayed some of Shearer's instinct for goal and West Ham fans will feel as distraught as Newcastle's when they read that Drogba had agreed to join them last summer had West Ham stayed up.

Sadly, the mother was as distraught as the kids who spoke of their lives being ruined.

Let's put it this way: you've got to be a pretty kind person if the person you once ran against and beat is as emotionally distraught as I am now".

He is one of the individuals we have spoken to and he is obviously distraught as well".

His easy manner works just as well with distraught parents who can't imagine how their children came to be packing guns.

The BBC's David Loyn, who has arrived at the scene, described it as desolate and distraught as the surviving villagers try to settle in to their temporary new homes on the hillside.

There's no comfort left at home either as her parents come unhinged: Her father looks on helplessly as her distraught mother drinks too much and stays out late.