- present tense form of distress (3rd person singular).
distresses
Example Sentences
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We encounter bad Weather and various Dangers and Distresses.
But they, Exalted Creatures! scorned to reflect a moment on their pecuniary Distresses and would have blushed at the idea of paying their Debts.—Alas! what was their Reward for such disinterested Behaviour!
From Love and Freindship [sic] by Austen, Jane
It had been first announced as "A Lay Sermon on the Distresses of the Country, addressed to the Middle and Higher Orders," and Hazlitt's article had been in the nature of an anticipatory review.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Cares, Distresses, Diseases, Uneasinesses, and Dislikes of our own, are by no means to be obtruded upon our Friends.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Distresses of this kind press upon all men; but only in very ordinary minds do they outweigh solemn considerations.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
