distressed

Example Sentences

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"That was perhaps what distressed me the most - is that I felt I could not relate and I couldn't see what he was thinking," he said.

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Bubbe gets distressed when we remind her that her memory is going, he says.

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A distressed, elderly woman died alone in an A&E corridor in full view of other people waiting at a north Wales hospital, a visitor has claimed.

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The jury heard that at about 05.30 BST on 17 July that year, a man walking his dog found an extremely distressed woman staggering along the pavement.

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She said she found this behaviour "unacceptable" and felt "distressed and alarmed".

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