distresses
Example Sentences
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“It distresses us to return work which is not perfect,” the note read.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024
“As they help lead us out of our long bout with the pandemic they will provide balm for our distresses and delight for our hearts.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2022
Meanwhile, Duke visits an antique shop, and the sight of all the unclaimed tchotchkes left behind by the dead distresses her: “I don’t feel connected to anything!”
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2022
Yet his possible removal to Zimbabwe is what really distresses him.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2021
“The coroner,” he wrote Margaret three days after the collapse, “is a disagreeable little doctor, a political hack, without brains, who distresses me.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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