Sentence examples for troubled and distant from inspiring English sources
He said he used to be a firm believer in corporal punishment until it drove a wedge between him and his own daughter, who became troubled and distant.
But for 40 years, she and her husband, Reynaldo, opened their two-bedroom home in El Sereno to countless people in need -- from troubled teens and distant relatives, to down-on-their-luck strangers passing through the city.
Tillerson had a troubled and at times distant relationship with Trump, who cut his first secretary of state out of some key decisions.
The developer, Ben E. Jarvis, a 78-year-old lawyer in Tyler, said the mineral rights were severed before he took over the property in 1974 from the financially troubled owners, distant cousins of his.
Service was vague and distant.
He was morose and distant.
"Shy and distant," he said.
And distant strangers matter still less.
I feel at once serene and distant.
She is tender and distant at once.
