distresses
Example Sentences
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“What distresses Angelenos the most are encampments. That’s where people were dying on the street,” Bass told reporters.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2023
The turn against immigration distresses some Texas business owners.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2022
Yet his possible removal to Zimbabwe is what really distresses him.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2021
Nearly three weeks after the protests, he admitted that “many Australians, especially women, believe that I have not heard them, and that greatly distresses me.”
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2021
I write again as I am in the utmost distresses.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
