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Distressed
"Distressed" in a Sentence (20 examples)
His nagging distressed her.
You have no idea how distressed she was.
The news distressed her.
What police thought was a distressed cat turned out to be a man practicing the cuica, a drum which produces noise by rubbing a stick attached to the drumhead from the inside.
EU finance ministers agreed on a permanent support system for distressed eurozone countries on Monday.
Jane was distressed.
"How is the young lady?" "She is greatly distressed; but her father is comforting her."
Tom appears distressed.
Tom is distressed.
Tom seems distressed.
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I'm distressed that sexy John hasn't answered my calls. I hope nothing bad happened to him on the way here.
Oh that thou wer't not, poore distreſſed ſoule.
Wee are troubled on euery side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despaire,
Now, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking in the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading in his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and, as he read, he burst out, as he had done before, crying, "What shall I do to be saved?"
Distressed jeans bear all the signs of exertion, while the consumer never has to lift a finger. What could be more luxurious than that?
Lawyers for Hirst accepted that his works had on occasion “been made to look older or distressed”.
distressed debt
Funds that buy “distressed” debt, which typically yields ten percentage points or more over Treasuries, are becoming familiar villains.
Sam Zell called himself “the Grave Dancer”, even though, as he explained, his penchant for buying distressed assets “wasn’t so much dancing on graves as …raising the dead”.
One multibillion-dollar firm that specialises in distressed debt called X's debt “uninvestable”.
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