Sentence examples for distressed to read from inspiring English sources

I was distressed to read about my hometown football team,.

I was distressed to read Lt. George Mole's interpretation of and response to Bruce Springsteen's song "American Skin".

As a voter in the Nineteenth Con gressional District I was very distressed to read The Times's endorsement of Bella S. Abzug.

As a New York University graduate and a writer about sacred havens, I was distressed to read about the Catholic Center's possible move to an off-campus location.

In the intervening years since living in Moscow, I've been deeply distressed to read about the deaths of journalists, the stifling of dissent and the increasingly anti-American rhetoric of Vladimir V. Putin.

Referring to recent incidents involving ultra-Orthodox men, Ms. Streisand said she was distressed to read about gender segregation and about women being assaulted while praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

A writer's fan base, unlike that of a rock star, is post-adolescent, and relatively tolerant of time's scars; it distressed me to read of some teenager who, subjected to the Rolling Stones' halftime entertainment at a recent Super Bowl, wondered why that skinny old man (Mick Jagger) kept taking his shirt off and jumping around.

She says she let Harman read the book and was distressed to learn later that her friend was working on a popular version of its theories.

I felt distressed and angry to read of people still "enjoying" their holidays in Thailand (Death is all around, but the band plays on, December 30).

The dhami mentioned several treatments for distressed women: If someone has been affected by a ghost I will beat them with this stick and slap them once or twice I will tell [the distressed woman] to read Hanuman Chalisa, and on Tuesdays sit peacefully in a religious place.

And a student named Camille was clearly distressed at being forced to read it for school: "That book looks like it is NOT the business".