distresses
Example Sentences
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This is said to produce a form of underwater noise pollution which distresses the animals.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
But what distresses him most is not the financial pain big farmers will experience but the hardship that will be visited upon workers and their families who are dependent upon agriculture for their livelihoods.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023
"This includes lists of probable cause of pavement distresses, and some are related to climate," an ACI spokesperson said.
From Reuters • Jul. 22, 2022
The turn against immigration distresses some Texas business owners.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2022
“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
