Sample Sentences for
distraught
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    I guess I just got distraught, watching them.  (source)
    distraught = severely worried or dismayed
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    She woke her up with the same distraught shake.  (source)
    distraught = extremely distressed
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    Minho was standing behind him, looking distraught and dirty, and spotted Thomas first.  (source)
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    Instead of feeling distraught over this turn of events, moreover, McCandless was exhilarated: He saw the flash flood as an opportunity to shed unnecessary baggage.  (source)
    distraught = distressed
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    Angela stood between her determined mother and her distraught partner, paralyzed by the burden of choice.  (source)
    distraught = extremely distressed
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    My father gave money instead and she was distraught, saying that wasn't the same.  (source)
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    His face was tight and closed, but I could tell he was distraught.  (source)
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    Frantic now, he plunges into the moving crowd, searching each row of distraught women.  (source)
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    He had been upset and distraught on the day of his arrest, but he was so sure he'd be released soon.  (source)
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    Some seemed calm; others were shaking their heads or looking distraught.  (source)
    distraught = distressed
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    I was beside myself; distraught beyond words.  (source)
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    Pilot Joe Deasy recalled a distraught airman who came to him with a question: If a crewman went mad during a mission, would the crew shoot him?  (source)
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    Setting his fables in the palaces of yesteryear, Rosotsky lit them in the hazy aura of dreams, shot them in the soft focus of memories, and capped the first, second, and third acts with close-ups of his starlet: Anna aspiring; Anna distraught; Anna at long last in love.  (source)
    distraught = extremely distressed
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