Sentence examples for distraught for from inspiring English sources

"I was distraught for a whole week".

"I was distraught for the whole day and beyond," she said.

This has his mother and brother distraught, for Fig has been, at age 18, one of the best-known electric guitarists in central Mississippi.

The Last Song features a dreadfully earnest big-eyed child whose sole purpose is to be annoyingly zany for the first half and then uncomfortably distraught for the second, and Dear John doesn't.

Mr. Mahoney was too distraught for an interview today at his home here, adorned with photos of Ms. Santillán and other children whom Mr. Mahoney, who has two grown daughters of his own, and his wife, Nita, have helped.

He was distraught for the department, the game and himself.

For distraught fans looking for an alternative to the site, music site Popjustice has annointed a successor: mobile app Cymbal.

Penny, distraught, pleaded for her daughter to return, in a widely televised appeal.

My dining partner, now looking distraught, asked for the chicken instead.

Among its minor characters is a savage caricature of Leslie Carter — revenge (as Clyde's wife explains to the distraught Leslie) for the destruction of his dream.

As the play progressed - a dark pastiche of 19th-century mysteries, about the revenge wreaked by the ghost of a distraught woman for the death of her child - the sceptical sneers of the teenage schoolboys quietened into fascination, and with the final, brutal denouement - "Well, they just went, ooh!