Example sentences for: distraught

How can you use “distraught” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Both violent and absurd, it features a hero (Joaquin Phoenix) who's guilty of a sexual indiscretion but gets more than he bargained for when the distraught husband of his mistress commits suicide and makes it look like a murder committed by--guess who?

  • Theory 1: He was distraught because his girlfriend had broken up with him.

  • But when she later found out the number had been reassigned to a sex-talk line, she, worried that a distraught person might be pushed over the edge by sex talk, tried to get the number changed.

  • A visibly distraught Monica paces.

  • His friends at the party were "gloomy and distraught" and it was Clinton who was cheering them up.


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