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How to use distraught in a sentence

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The distraught parents, from a remote Continental community, were determined the operation should not go ahead.
The truck driver, in a green shirt, paced the cordoned off area, obviously distraught and somewhat out of his mind.
Horse thieves snatched two Shetland ponies from a field in Kingswood, leaving their owner and her six-year-old grandson distraught.
She slung a sisterly arm around her best friend's shoulders, understanding how distraught she was.
Plenty of distraught candidates have gone to court accusing the voting machines of miscounting their votes, but to little avail.
Still distraught over her shortness with him, he reminded her that the days of divorce being taboo were long gone.
The only other distraught note was the occasional wrinkling seen in the tutu skirts.
You were syphoning petrol out of a car that had three distraught children in it, but figured it was best to keep quiet.
Juliet's mother is very distraught at her daughter's preference for sports rather than lacy underthings.
Upset over the turn of events, they slyly have her removed from their home, leaving both the maid and the young daughter distraught.
The distraught father killed him, and used the unwritten law as his defense.
But Richard was only there on behalf of Karen's next of kin, back home in Pennsylvania and too distraught to travel.
A distraught mother whose special needs son has vanished from his east Belfast home is praying for his safe return.
And he looked rather distraught, somewhat out of it, and not at his best for sure.
Their distraught owners, who have searched high and low for their missing pets, fear it is more than a coincidence.
These are not works of an isolate, primitive, or emotionally distraught outsider.
Ivy wandered aimlessly in her chemise and petticoats, too distraught to return to her quarters and dress.
Yesterday, his role was that of a prayer of the faithful reader and a comforter to his distraught mum.
As he blew the final whistle Collina walked over to the distraught Kahn to offer his commiserations but Kahn was unmoved.
A distraught York mother says she has no idea how she will feed her family over Easter after tax credits chaos left her almost penniless.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I should have known that she was not herself, that she was frightened and nervous and distraught.
In her distraught state of mind she had scarcely pondered that contingency.
She burst into a little peal of laughter as she looked into his distraught face.
Vehicles would have run amok, and the result would have been an indescribable chaos of the maimed, mangled and distraught.
I was so distraught with agony, and fear, and grief, that had our holy father Abraham come to preach to me, he had found but a deaf listener.
Finally he became so distraught that he asked leave to travel in foreign lands, and this was granted him.
Maria Philipovna, too, seemed distraught, and conversed with me with an air of detachment.
The Mark Boat was below and a little to the sou'west of us, fluctuating in the centre of her distraught galaxy.
The children were distraught and restless, and things went wrong.
Martha grew more distraught as the snowbound months went by.
The distraught young man stood in the middle of the road and glared back at the town.
But, my darling, for the moment I am terribly agitated and distraught.
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