distress
Example Sentences
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If losing your home and its contents — lest we forget about them — would cause you financial distress, don’t get rid of your home insurance.
From MarketWatch
She called the experience "extremely distressing and outrageous".
From BBC
Two years after allegations surfaced about the helicopter crash images, a jury awarded widow Vanessa Bryant $31 million in damages after she sued the county for violating her right to privacy and inflicting emotional distress.
From Los Angeles Times
Tracy says the process took a "huge amount of distressing form-filling, including sending the original will, original documents, all at my own expense," she says.
From BBC
After the war, Jacob, back in Louisiana, bought up distressed plantations, and Bernard returned to “this rough, rural, ruined place” to help run their business and agricultural empire.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
