Sentence examples for distressingly high from inspiring English sources

Our complication rates for even simple procedures remain distressingly high.

But the sheer volume of these audits seems distressingly high.

Indexes are up on the day (for the moment), but interbank rates are still distressingly high.

I know from experience that internalized homophobia, transphobia, and racism persist within the gay community at distressingly high rates.

Worst of all, unemployment is distressingly high, especially in the east and south-east and among women and the young.

"The state's lesbian and gay communities smoke at distressingly high rates," said Dr. Diana M. Bonta, the state health director.

Still, it's hard to get too excited about staffing when unemployment remains distressingly, and persistently high, right?

Improving on that distressingly low figure has to be a high priority.

These results are distressingly low keeping in view the exceedingly high number of diabetics in our country.

But the scandals have become distressingly widespread, and it appears that some suspect higher officials have been left alone, while other cases are never reported in the official media.

Performed in a small room in the former Govan Town Hall, the walls stacked high with ledgers and scrolls, the show brings us distressingly close to the story's terrors.