Voorbeelden van distraught

• A distraught old woman restrains the old warrior, while two younger men attempt to calm his attackers.

• When the girl in the same story discovered her father's conspiracy, she was distraught.

• I suspect that today's students would be distraught at the prospect, with no opportunity to seek a tutor's opinion.

• As well as ending in walkouts, these sequences end with one or both of the par ticipants evidently in an indignant or distraught state.

• Distraught postmasters and star route riders blamed not the department but their congressional representatives for the eliminations.

• She tells the social worker that on returning to the house she found the baby crying and distraught with bruising around his mouth.

• I have seen in court distraught parents who are unable to cope with an errant child, searching for a new avenue of control.

• The more dire his state the less time will there be for the distraught spouse, parents or children.