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Example sentences for: distressing

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Breathlessness may be one of the most distressing symptoms for patients, families, and caregivers.
It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion.
Chatterbox just caught up with a Boston Globe article containing the distressing news that Out-of-Town News, the famous Harvard Square newsstand, is losing business to the Internet.
After I finished this worthy and dull book, a distressing thought came to me: Its banality might be the fault neither of the judge nor of the legal profession.
China’s civil war sent distressing echoes to Hong Kong.