Sentence examples for distraught why from inspiring English sources

So we were distraught — 'Why are you killing us?' " I asked if Zeb thought he would ever be able to come to the U.S. "Sir, if you look at all my phone calls, I had told my grandfather over and over that I want to come to America," he said.

Don't tell us he's distraught – show us why.

When Michael Corleone dismisses Tom Hagen his distraught childhood friend asks why: "You're not a wartime consigliere," says Corleone.

Ms. Rosenstein said she counseled a distraught woman who wondered why her mother's funeral attracted far fewer people than a firefighter's funeral held in an adjacent room.

"One word: why?" says his distraught mum.

They already knew why Le Gougne was distraught, they said: her conscience had caught up to her.

DISTRACTED Cynthia Nixon plays a distraught mother trying to understand why her child cannot stay focused in this play by Lisa Loomer ("Living Out").

Rushton comforts the distraught Elspeth, and asks her why she plagues him.

From the back of the temple Ms. Giffords attends, Naomi Present, the distraught daughter of a rabbi, cried out on Sunday morning, "Why, why, why, why?" Many across America were asking the same thing, and the state found itself on the defensive, with its top lawmakers asserting that Arizona was not a hothouse of ugly rhetoric.

Maybe that's why Arnolphe becomes so distraught as his plans begin to fall apart; he's probably not going to get a second chance.

Why aren't you distraught about it?" "My fire was 10 years ago".