Sentence examples for were anguished from inspiring English sources
adjective
Feeling anguish; experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent.
On the streets, New Yorkers were anguished by the latest violence.
She was puzzled when some were anguished that their mothers weren't home for holidays and family events.
His face becomes pinched, as though he were anguished at the state of the world around him.
The documents were edited by Donald Ritchie, the Senate historian, and cover 1968, when members of the committee were anguished over Vietnam and in a deteriorating relationship with the Johnson White House over the war.
"Now we have to take a look -- were someone's rights violated?" The climate now is very different from the months before the Dallas meeting, when Catholics were anguished over the victims who had been violated by priests.
Those who knew Mr. Clementi -- on the Rutgers campus in Piscataway, N.J., at his North Jersey high school and in a community orchestra -- were anguished by the circumstances surrounding his death, describing him as an intensely devoted musician who was sweet and shy.
Adam is anguished; Eve shocked.
The community is anguished.
Truffaut was anguished about the exchange.
Hobbes was anguished in 17th-century England.
& armed services are anguished over his military budget.
