Sentence examples for distressing hours from inspiring English sources

Eventually, after 11 distressing hours, Mr T got the pain relief he needed.

We spent six distressing hours at the airport trying to sort out the situation, then three hours transferring to another airport for the next available flight, thus missing a pre-paid night in our French hotel.

It had been a difficult and distressing 24 hours for Bosh as he neared his return.

But he saw enough in a distressing 2 hours 49 minutes to deliver a damning assessment of a team that fell three and a half games behind the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League East.

A distressing 24 hour news cycle, social media-based movements like #MeToo which have vast capacity to re-traumatise victims of sexual assault, the ubiquitous presence of trolls, and a constant pressure to present oneself in an authentic but aesthetic way: these are all pitfalls of internet life.

I wish I knew that they were offering enough comfort to one another to allow them both not to remember their distressing, even excruciating, last hours and days.

In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing".

The claim by the welfare minister Lord Freud that someone who has mental health problems or is disabled may be worth paying just £2 an hour was "deeply distressing and offensive to people", the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, has said.

I was doing a ski industry tour at the time and had to present a speech about an hour after hearing the distressing news that my grandfather had passed away.

Removing the breathing tube to attempt D.C.D. had the same effect, only it took much longer and Jaiden breathed irregularly for many hours, which seemed to Paul more distressing.

It's particularly distressing that some minority lawmakers, at this late hour, may block reform.