Sentence examples for distressed the from inspiring English sources
The shooting has distressed the Chinese.
Greenwood was drunk & ugly, & the sight of him distressed the writer.
Likewise, Biblical scholars distressed the faithful by focusing on inconsistencies among the gospels.
I don't have HIV or hep C, but it distressed the other inmates when I attempted to airdry it so the scab wouldn't pull off.
Carried out in 1869 through the agency of his unconventional man of business, Charles Augustus Howell, the exhumation visibly distressed the superstitious Rossetti.
The latest snippets from Charles Moore's elegant Margaret Thatcher hagiography include the nugget that nothing distressed the old girl like being denied an honorary degree by Oxford.
Later, if information from other inmates or correction officers suggests that an inmate is distressed, the person's mental state may be re-evaluated.
Monarchy's very few upsets over the past two centuries may have distressed the public and, as such, caused a flutter in Republican dovecotes.
As borrowers become "distressed," the credit card issuer has more time to pile on interest charges and fees until the client actually goes bankrupt.
After facing a house they deem grimy and roach-infested -- on television, it looks only artfully distressed -- the contestants are given $100 each and the mandate to get jobs.
A mild symptom did not distress the patient, a moderate symptom did distress the patient but was self-limiting without the need for intervention, and a severe symptom distressed the patient and required some form of intervention to alleviate it.
