Sentences with distress
dis·tress
D d - Jealousy causes distress and painful emotions.
- He expressed concern that the ship might be in distress.
- Greenpeace expedition leader Karli Thomas said it responded to the distress call from Kaiko Maru but was stood down.
- Customs initially received a distress call from the boat on April 30 after it ran out of food.
- The idea of Toni being in danger distresses him enormously. [VERB noun]
- distress merchandise
- Just for a moment, Vitaly Sokolov's distress was so great he was afraid he could not remember the way to the Royal Children's Hospital.
- Distress implies mental or physical strain imposed by pain, trouble, worry, or the like and usually suggests a state or situation that can be relieved [distress caused by famine]; suffering stresses the actual enduring of pain, distress, or tribulation [the suffering of the wounded]; agony suggests mental or physical torment so excruciating that the body or mind is convulsed with the force of it [in mortal agony]; anguish has equal force but is more often applied to acute mental suffering [the anguish of despair]
- A damsel in distress.
- distress livestock; distress wheat.
- distress prices; distress borrowing.
- To be distressed by excessive work.
- His suffering distressed him into committing suicide.
- To heighten his distress, he is approached by his wife, and bitterly upbraided for his perfidy in concealing from her his former connexions (with that unhappy girl who is here present with her child, the innocent offspring of her amours, fainting at the sight of his misfortunes, being unable to relieve him farther), and plunging her into those difficulties she never shall be able to surmount.
- I immediately considered that this must be some ship in distress, and that they had some comrade, or some other ship in company, and fired these gun for signals of distress, and to obtain help.
- She respects me, no doubt, but has no longer any passionate feeling for me, and my death will distress her without plunging her in despair.
- This power of distress, as anciently used, became as oppressive as the feudal forfeiture. It was as hard for the tenant to be stripped in an instant of all his goods, for arrears of rent, as to be turned out of the possession of his farm.
- She distressed the new media cabinet so that it fit with the other furniture in the room.