Sentence examples for with distraught from inspiring English sources

But don't picture High Sierra passes clotted with distraught heroin addicts staggering toward Canada on five-month walkabouts.

In 1975, I watched churches in Buenos Aires fill with distraught mothers praying futilely for news of missing sons and daughters.

His easy manner works just as well with distraught parents who can't imagine how their children came to be packing guns.

Once, he saw an enormous tractor-trailer speeding by, unaware that in its wake it was dragging a passenger car, complete with distraught passenger.

There is the young woman with distraught dark eyes who stands nearby stunned, and then the ferry employee, a tall woman with long arms who first holds onto me, and then the woman with the sunny coat.

Nelson's fourth collection, written in clear, muscular prose that can endure depression, deals mainly with distraught women in the act of returning, often to a childhood home, and hoping for a second chance.

As an outsider to this incident, I remain more objective than the parents who sit at home overcome with anger, distraught with fear, and paralyzed with that sinking feeling of being out of control.

She leaves at the conclusion of the second episode of the season, after having a thinly veiled argument with Grissom while dealing with the distraught husband of a victim whose case she had worked eight years prior.

Now imagine an opera -- not "Elektra" -- that opens with a grim four-note fanfare that scans perfectly with the name Agamemnon, and ends with a distraught soprano wailing the name of Agamemnon's son and avenger, Orestes.

A line of miniature pinchers, Pomeranians and Schnauzers draped with Christmas garlands, some wearing red velvet Santa caps, together with some distraught German Shepherds wearing false white beards, sat uneasily waiting for their photo-op with the merry old guy whose hand had a suspicious bandage on it.

The coach met with his distraught players.