- present tense form of distress (3rd person singular).
distresses
Example Sentences
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Love was the Mother of Poetry, and still produces, among the most ignorant and barbarous, a thousand imaginary Distresses and Poetical Complaints.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Cromwell, Fairfax, Hampden, and Pym may be considered as the original Causers of all the disturbances, Distresses, and Civil Wars in which England for many years was embroiled.
From Love and Freindship [sic] by Austen, Jane
Such is his Regiment who knows Mankind, and feels their Distresses so far as to prevent them.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
He was, as he annually insisted, with painful poverty of epithet, engaged in Philanthropic Work, alleviating the Distresses of the Respectable Poor and ameliorating Social Conditions Generally.
From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas
However, I can reckon up a large Catalogue of Complaints and Distresses, which Ireland can very justly charge her with.
From A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 by Anonymous
