On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Distraught. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as overwrought or agitated and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Distraught in a sentence
Distraught meaning
- Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
- Mad; insane.
Synonyms of Distraught
Using Distraught
- The main meaning on this page is: Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress. | Mad; insane.
- Useful related words include: overwrought, agitated.
- In the example corpus, distraught often appears in combinations such as: the distraught, was distraught, distraught over.
Context around Distraught
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Distraught
- In this selection, "distraught" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, players, visibly, initially, ouko, yadav and lindor stand out and add context to how "distraught" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a distraught ouko said and a distraught yadav stared. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "distraught" sits close to words such as ants, assertions and astounding, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with distraught
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Families distraught for ever. (4 words)
A distraught Yadav stared pensively at his bat. (8 words)
Cousineau is distraught with paranoia after Barry's arrest. (9 words)
Darla was initially distraught, asking Drusilla why she would do such a thing, which started a 60-second sequence that was the best in season 2. Drusilla explains her actions as only she could in a severely unstable fashion. (39 words)
Maitreyi Bhatt, a 27-year-old Indian citizen whose partner is Canadian and needs a visa, was distraught because her wedding is scheduled for late October in India, when he was to meet her family for the first time. (39 words)
Balor showed up to interfere with the match and help Priest, but Priest was distraught over the fact that his friend would show up despite Priest asking Balor not to interfere. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
A distraught Ouko said that, “When they took my baby away … they took him away from his brother.
A distraught Yadav stared pensively at his bat.
A staffer for San Francisco Assemblymember Phil Ting pleaded for help for a constituent so distraught about “the runaround” from EDD that she was suicidal.
A visibly distraught Lindor shouldered the blame for the five runs, if not for the entire game.
Balor showed up to interfere with the match and help Priest, but Priest was distraught over the fact that his friend would show up despite Priest asking Balor not to interfere.
Brian Brobbey collided with the head of goalkeeper Etienne Vaessen, leaving him unconscious and unresponsive in worrying scenes that left many players distraught.
Cousineau is distraught with paranoia after Barry's arrest.
Darla was initially distraught, asking Drusilla why she would do such a thing, which started a 60-second sequence that was the best in season 2. Drusilla explains her actions as only she could in a severely unstable fashion.
Distraught, Bill decides that he no longer wants to be alone and tells Frank he’s split the pills between them.
Distraught owner Mr Sadler, 33, spent the afternoon looking for his beloved family pet, who is 11 years old.
Doubling the possession count, the movie zigzags to its finale, featuring various heartsick and distraught adults going up against the devil.
Families distraught for ever.
Former Guardian colleague Roseanne Edwards said: “I am absolutely distraught to be writing my friend’s obituary.
Hamlin’s collapse left players distraught – in tears, kneeling with arms around one another before returning to their locker rooms.
Her husband, Paddy, was distraught after he found out and this triggered his spiral into depression.
He said: "I am really distraught, I am born and raised in London but I don't feel safe.
Lee’s distraught friends and colleagues in the tech world quickly linked his death to the city’s “lawlessness” and recidivism.
Mabel picks up on something with the distraught Cliff and discovers that it was actually he who pushed Ben that fateful night.
Maitreyi Bhatt, a 27-year-old Indian citizen whose partner is Canadian and needs a visa, was distraught because her wedding is scheduled for late October in India, when he was to meet her family for the first time.
Meanwhile, their seven-year-old daughter, Poppy, had found out about the unwelcome intruder and was distraught about him hanging out in her garden.
Common combinations with distraught
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the distraught 23×
- was distraught 18×
- distraught over 15×
- distraught and 15×
- distraught mother 13×
- is distraught 11×
- distraught by 11×
- distraught after 9×
- distraught at 9×
- distraught father 9×