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How to use distressed in a sentence

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These boots sport handcrafted stitching, lightly distressed waxed leather for durability, and a steel shank and multidensity footbed for support.
Our mum didn't attend the inquest for such reasons, and is now deeply distressed.
Laura came home very distressed because she thought her form teacher would tell her off for being late.
His voice gave out on the final syllable, his distressed croak fading abruptly into an almost inaudible squeak.
She sounded distressed, and he could almost hear her voice broke slightly as she gave him the address of a police precinct in New York City.
The edges are darkened and distressed as if they were rescued from a box of letters kept in a dark attic.
Unlike doctors, they cannot easily withdraw when patients are distressed and in pain.
Mpofu said the growth of Bulawayo and the current economic situation have strained resources to cope with distressed calls.
When she became distressed, he stopped, walked off and bolted the door shut behind him.
Although clearly distressed the woman was uninjured and she managed to alert police who arrived quickly at her home.
Mental health counsellors have set up crisis phone lines for people distressed by the shootings.
Pensioner Anthony Tanner was left highly distressed after a vandal tried to set his house on fire with a burning newspaper.
Wear them with a pair of boot-cut distressed designer jeans, a thick gray wool turtleneck, and a beige or brown corduroy blazer.
I know I should be a bit distressed by all those arts going up in flames, but somehow I can't get that bothered about it.
Take it down a few notches by ditching the velvet blazer for a military-inspired jacket worn with distressed jeans.
Elizabeth felt that he was distressed because she was right and he had upset her.
A student spotted the pistol in his clothes, and several distressed students needed counselling afterwards.
Antique beads and braiding were sown on to jersey tops and distressed lace was used to create a patchwork feel on dresses.
She was very distressed and told me the family had upped and gone to England and she was very fearful for the safety of the two children.
When we arrived she was in such a distressed state that we had to treat it with the upmost seriousness.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Camilla, distressed, hung her head, and would have forborne making any answer.
The zaddik, however miserly he might be, had to assist the poor and distressed with his revenues.
It appeared that the captain of the galiot was much distressed on this account.
A word of consolation, a caress, even from her mother, would have distressed her.
He looked down like a compassionate mastiff upon a distressed Italian grayhound.
I was so vexed, so distressed, because it was almost sunset and the boar seemed to be going strongly and faster than a grayhound.
He looked actually distressed when, with a wristy movie actor's gesture of finality, I gave him the whole of a dollar bill.
For some reason or other she saw that Mr. Hitchings looked greatly distressed.
Often they may live peaceably, anguished with doubt, and distressed for humanity.
But that which especially distressed her now was that she had not made a confidante of Hubertine.
It does not aim at convicting a hostile disbelief, but at succouring a distressed faith.
Looking at it in this lightand there seemed no other way of correlating this literature with human lifeOld Mole was distressed.
He happened however to have on his horseman's corslet, so that he was distressed.
Margaret, distressed at the day's beginning, followed the Bournemouth steamer with her eyes.
Philip was vanquished, and he knew it, but he was not daunted, he was not distressed.
George was glad to have some one to talk to, but he was distressed by this narration of his landlady.
I was vexed and puzzled, and distressed, too, after sending John away as I had done.
Jenny, being little and svelte, was distressed by the prevalent sumptuousness.
She was so distressed to find that she no longer had strength to resist her pride.
When he at last reappeared he was white as wax, distressed, anxious, but still resolute.
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