distraught
Example Sentences
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Or should she support a distraught mother’s efforts to save her daughter?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The deaths of her grandparents in quick succession left her so distraught — they had raised her — that she never finished her dissertation.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
Poursaid, still distraught, said that the family is now leaving the area after their neighbours, fearing further strikes, were reluctant to rent to them.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
When she botched the final jump of her otherwise faultless short program, it was the shattering of her dream that left Glenn more distraught than the score that dropped her to 13th place.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
The command was entirely unnecessary, for the moment he began to speak everyone but Milo, Tock, and the distraught bug rushed from the hall, down the stairs, and out of the palace.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.