Sentence examples for distressing number from inspiring English sources
A distressing number have died".
Many are damaged and I saw a distressing number of dead bodies.
There is a distressing number of misspelled names (Ridgeway for Ridgway, for instance) and similar errors.
All children (and a distressing number of adults) want to go to Hogwarts.
A distressing number of my students come to me on the way to or from another activity.
A distressing number "throw rocks" and launch personal attacks—a low game that Mr Cruz has no intention of playing.
On this part of the border, the more distressing numbers reveal a mounting human crisis.
The first MRI scan was the most distressing: the number of women reporting distress fell in subsequent years.
That such discrimination has a place in a large part of the modern world is distressing: the number of "missing women" can be quite large.
Turnout can be unpredictable and it's distressing when numbers are low".
Even more distressing, the numbers are worse for those between the ages of 18 and 29, where almost two fifths of those polled told surveyors they considered themselves to be in the lowest economic brackets.
