Sentence examples for distraught days from inspiring English sources

Throughout the rest of the story, as he goes through his increasingly distraught days, the man hears fragments of other people's conversations.

But aides were distraught days later when Mr. Obama told the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that his experience outstripped hers, lowering him to a back-and-forth over experience with the No. 2 candidate on the Republican ticket.

As often as I look back and think year after year, baby after baby, I went through such distraught days that turned into weeks that turned into months and yes, years; such physical and emotional pain being forced back to work due to not having a paid leave.

Her husband, she said, came home distraught the day of the murder; she found him dismantling and sawing down his pistol in their bathroom.

When I emerged unharmed a week later in Vietnam, I forgot to call home on the agreed upon date and my poor mom spent several days distraught, waiting by the phone, refusing to leave the house (at that time we had no e-mail, no Facebook, just expensive calling booths).

In it, Hannah returns home after a bad day, distraught.

The next day, distraught and overtired, I called my mother and tearfully confessed my situation to her. "What am I doing?" I asked her.

Days later, distraught upon learning that Landingham killed himself after he and Noble returned from a short trip to the Outer Banks (where the pastor worshiped Noble at the Wright brothers' memorial), Noble tracks down his Spanish teacher, Anita Acheson, who has fled North Carolina to escape their affair.

In the old days, a distraught spouse would have to hire some Philip Marlowe type to track their husband or wife.

A woman Bland shared a cell wall with named Alexandra Pyle described her to ABC 7 as "sort of distraught" throughout her three days in custody.

Throughout these shattering events, which left both her children fatherless, Bosse kept up her busy schedule, apart from a few days off, distraught and grief-stricken, after Wingård's suicide.