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How to use the word distraught in a Sentence?

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There are members of his family here, along with his fiancée, who are incredibly distraught tonight, there are other media people who are corralled together and standing in solidarity tonight as one of our own has passed.

Luana Munoz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was distraught. I was hurt. I was done, fed up, i'm pretty sure I texted BG's agent and was like, ‘I don't want to talk to anybody. It's going to take me a minute to get my emotions together, and just tell everybody I'm unavailable right now.' Because it just knocked me out. I wasn't well, I'm still not well.

Cherelle Griner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was distraught. I was hurt. I was done, fed up.

Cherelle Griner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Everybody is distraught. She was the heart, the lifeline of the family. The heartbeat.

Daily News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Her exact words to me were, ‘you’re gonna love Dr. Cabral’s work.’ I didn’t care one way or another. I accepted my wife the way she was, everybody is distraught. She was the heart, the lifeline of the family. The heartbeat.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was very distraught. I just shot somebody. I'm sorry it happened, i'm so sorry.

Kim Potter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were absolutely distraught, we pleaded and pleaded with them not to do it, but their mind was made up. That tree was coming down.

Bharat Mistry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is a complete tragedy and Liam will be very missed, my son is very distraught by the news. Liam was a special needs child, at a disadvantage and dependent on others' kindness. Unfortunately, his mother took that away.

Chris Husted

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She talked to me about angels, and then about the hitchhiker, it wasn’t really like her to pick up hitchhikers, so I knew she was disoriented, and very much in grief, she was very upset and distraught about [the death].

John Frey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I went out on call with a sergeant. We got a call of a man outside his house with a rifle that was distraught. We pulled up and did a U-turn past the house and came up short of the house. He told me to sit in the car, which I was gonna do. I wasn’t getting out, he got out. As he got out, another car came screaming up and two young people jumped out screaming. As it turned out, it was their grandfather. This policeman defused the entire situation by just remaining calm.

Edward Berthelot/GC Images

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I did get confirmation [of her death], but that was from a very distraught person [Roberts boyfriend, Lance OBrien].

Mike Pingel

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I may be Stephen Fowler, but today I'm standing here as the father of a murder victim, we are just distraught. This has really torn two families apart.

Stephen Fowler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I may be Stephen Fowler, but today I'm standing here as the father of a murder victim. We are just distraught, this has really torn two families apart, it's a love story that's ended tragically, it really is -- it's the worst ever love story because we now have two young people who had everything ahead of them, tragically murdered.

Stephen Fowler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These families are distraught about the effort to get back their loved ones, they want closure.

Robert Clifford

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We had to pull her show because her meds stopped working and she was distraught over her dad's illness.

Larry Rudolph

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Jeff Flake said,' I'm concerned that we are tearing the country apart,' that the powerful testimony of Christine Blasey Ford did not seem to be taken seriously and investigated -- and that Judge Judge Kavanaugh and Judge Kavanaugh family were distraught by allegations that weren't credible.

Chris Coons

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Very distraught, i think he is still in shock.

Reedley Police Chief Joe Garza

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I noticed some men come in and they seemed distraught and afraid so I asked them what was going on, they said they were being harassed and followed.

Terrance Mannery

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He was in a house where someone died and he’s completely distraught because of it.

Kevin Sullivan

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Since then, we’ve only been able to get him to wear his scout uniform one time. He won’t even go near it. He looks visibly distraught when we talk about this.

Chad Blythe

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

She was a very special girl, she had problems before, she had cancer, but she was a fighter, she was a very sweet girl, shy, but very sweet ; my mind is filled with her memories. The distraught father, his voice breaking, told The Star he normally did not pick up his daughter from school.

Amilcar Torcato

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Camila Torcato was Camila Torcato, she had problems before, she had cancer, but she was a fighter, camila Torcato was Camila Torcato, shy, but very sweet ; my mind is filled with Camila Torcato memories. The distraught father, his voice breaking, told The Star he normally did not pick up his daughter from school.

Amilcar Torcato

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I sat in the corner of my couch and I sobbed all night, we were both so distraught and neither of us were strong enough to lean on each other.

Casey Kirsch

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This is all going to come down to who's working the hardest at the end and who's going to make a connection, everybody from Trump on down should not feel the least bit comfortable about where they are or distraught about where they are. We've got two debates between now and then. There's a lot to do, so I feel good.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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