Sentence examples for distraught man from inspiring English sources

He was a distraught man when I met him.

"Have you seen my wife?" inquired a distraught man.

Once, a distraught man in a tuxedo leapt into the river, but residents saved him.

Here, one day, is a distraught man who describes how, while helping to dig in search of the living, he heard the distant cry of a little girl.

He once startled another Massachusetts elected official at a community meeting by arguing so ferociously with a citizen in the crowd that the distraught man fled the auditorium.

Our East 12th Street fish-taco shop had been open only three days when a distraught man came into the restaurant late in the afternoon.

Morris looked visibly distraught, his man having evaded his mark, but he found redemption in the game's closing minutes.

They rummaged helplessly through pockets and purse for change, and finally, looking distraught, the man waved dollar bills.

On the way back from town with her shopping, my mother bumped into the distraught bread man.

Mr. Jefferson, like so many people, was a whole made up of contradictions: alternatively joyful and distraught; a man living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, "who could look like a thug with his do-rag," by one friend's account, but who loved Beyoncé and Britney; someone who encouraged others to seek help but was too proud — or too closed off — to do so himself.

"I have come this far, maybe Allah decided this is where I'll finally meet my fate," said a distraught old man as the convoy was about to leave without him.