distress
Example Sentences
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At 8:45 a.m., the South Coast Fire Protection District received a “call of distress,” said Chief Jason Warner.
From Los Angeles Times
The reader feels the noose tighten and shares Ms. Chang’s distress as it becomes evident after 2018 that she can no longer visit her home country—or her mother’s deathbed.
The scene he witnessed - of a huge number of bodies lying on the ground at a forensic medical centre in Tehran - was so distressing that he felt compelled to share it, he told the BBC.
From BBC
But the moment that stood out most to me was when one good Samaritan asked plaintively while helping the distressed teenager, “We got to be able to call somebody.”
From Salon
And because she couldn’t let a moment pass without setting me straight, she added, “And the proper word is isn’t, not ain’t. Mind your grammar, even in times of distress.”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
