distraught

Example Sentences

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At this point, spirits were usually so distraught and distracted by their own eternal fate that they did not notice anything about him.

From Literature

Or should she support a distraught mother’s efforts to save her daughter?

From The Wall Street Journal

The deaths of her grandparents in quick succession left her so distraught — they had raised her — that she never finished her dissertation.

From Salon

"We were distraught at the start and now we are angry."

From BBC

Poursaid, still distraught, said that the family is now leaving the area after their neighbours, fearing further strikes, were reluctant to rent to them.

From Barron's