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324 examples of Distressed in a sentence

And when I first learned about endangered species, I was truly distressed to know that every day, animals were being wiped off the face of this Earth forever.
We're going overseas and bringing back pictures like this: of the utterly distressed or the displaced or the hungry or the child laborers or the exotic.
Actually, the way to study empathy in human children is to instruct a family member to act distressed, and then to see what young children do.
This is also actually how we measure empathy in young children, by looking at how they respond to distressed individuals.
Yet I could see soiled nappies, and I could see that some of the children were distressed, but the only noise was a low, continuous moan.
After spending a week in Bogor, three of my roommates left for the perilous journey, and we got the news two days later that a distressed boat sank in the sea en route to Christmas Island.
At this point, Grace became visibly distressed, and she prodded the body, and she vocalized.
I started out showing how much we had distressed the Monterey Bay ecosystem with pollution and the canning industry and all of the attendant problems.
Do you want them distressed?
Betty Grable is very appealing in a brief bit (singing and dancing in the number "Let's K-nock K-nees" with overtly sissified Edward Everett Horton), but the star-couple looks distressed and unhappy throughout.
A very, very, very slow-moving, aimless movie about a distressed, drifting young man.
Still distressed over his having left them, the hippie group steal a car and travel across the USA to visit Claude "...for a couple of hours," in the words of George Berger (to an M.P. stationed at the entry gate of the Army base Claude is temporarily stationed at in Nevada).
My three favorite actors for this film were Jack Wild, who plays the best Dodger in any film version of the story, Ron Moody, a playful and humorous Fagin (this character is worked out much better than he is in the book), and Shani Wallis, who is the strongest, most distressed version of Nancy.
Her mother is also very distressed ..only a miracle can alleviate their unhappiness.Which all viewers hope will materialise.
Sir Alexander Korda and H.G. Wells were both distressed by its poor ratings---for good reason.
He offers his distressed friend Felix a new home in his apartment.
Something is amiss, as she is talking incessantly on her cellphone and looking distressed.
Loy is distressed because she loves them both.
A bunch of people in a bar are slightly distressed when a blood-covered, shotgun-wielding "hero" bursts in and warns them all about ravenous, speedy creatures travelling not far behind him.
While watching this "artful" piece of ..., I was distressed to think that people could actually relate to this plot.
As its release date neared, though, and details of the film began to leak out, I became distressed by the broad changes the film's writers had made to Moore's original story, apparently with the consent of the Hugheses.
Once I was resolute in my continuing to sit through the most dissatisfying film I'd ever seen I was less fidgety and distressed; I had resigned to how much the movie frustrated me.
Maybe it is just me but after i watched the film i felt unclean and distressed.
this leaves little room for anything more (cgi wasn't invented then) and so healthy toothed mrs tierney mainly looks plainly distressed.
Half true, comment from Williams,heard on the radio with the Nazis starts giving hope to the distressed common people , caught in a small town held by the Nazis.
Jack Smight must have been distressed at getting such cheesy directorial assignments such as "Airport 1975" and, a few years later, this weak science-fiction entry.
Having missed the warning signs about the bank Northern Rock, which needed to be bailed out by the UK government after a run on its deposits in September 2007, the British authorities, unlike their eurozone counterparts, quickly dealt with the economy’s distressed banks.
The European Union has finally committed itself to helping its financially distressed members.
Europe’s leaders recognized that distressed countries’ debts would become unmanageable unless their economies could grow, and that growth could not be achieved without assistance.
The resulting austerity will hinder Europe’s growth, and thus that of its most distressed economies: after all, nothing would help Greece more than robust growth in its trading partners.
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