Example sentences for: distressed

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

  • If Mr. Mason is so distressed at the state of American English, I invite him to leave Switzerland and take up residence in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • The doubter will be Bill Kristol, TV pundit and editor of the Weekly Standard . That makes Kristol, among more glorious attributes, Slate 's neighbor in a downtown D.C. office building--which may answer the question several distressed readers have asked: Why so many writers in Slate from the Weekly Standard ? Answer: They're just so ...

  • R: I saw desserts; I'd no lemons, alas, no melon; distressed was I .

  • The paper also states that Clinton loyalists are "greatly distressed," and mentions that William Cohen recently looked unusually depressed and shaken.

  • (Gross detail: Soaking uniform buttons in urine gives them a distressed, Civil War look.)


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