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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of distresses in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of distresses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of distresses in a Sentence

  1. Max Beerbohm:

    It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

  2. Enrique Alfaro:

    It embarrasses me, it distresses me, it greatly pains me as a man from Jalisco, and as governor.

  3. Jean de La Bruyère:

    Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

  4. G. K. Chesterton:

    People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

  5. Ginny Burdick:

    The people opposing that bill just behaved reprehensibly around the building, and one of the things that distresses me is Im afraid that some of them are going to feel that those tactics worked. Those tactics had nothing to do with what happened.

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