How to Use distraught in a Sentence

distraught

adjective

• She was distraught over the death of her partner.
• Distraught relatives are waiting for news of the missing children.
• Like the distraught wife of the hero who saves the day.
  — Molly Horan, Glamour, 19 Jan. 2018
• No nori would grow off the coast of Japan, and farmers were distraught.
  — Esther Inglis-Arkell, Ars Technica, 19 Nov. 2017
• A few feet away from the car was a distraught middle-aged white male.
  — Rachel Dissell, cleveland.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• There was a lot of blood on the floor, but besides that, the owner was distraught.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 18 June 2023
• The girls, they were just distraught about what had transpired.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2021
• Her mother, so distraught by the loss of her child, ends her own life.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 5 Feb. 2023
• Manzo broke free and, distraught, went to the bathroom to wash her hands.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
• Or the distraught girlfriend of the man who would and does risk everything.
  — Molly Horan, Glamour, 19 Jan. 2018
• The friend was distraught, but Barr was thrilled: the book was ruffling feathers.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 25 July 2021
• The description of the distraught man as a friend had confused matters for the agent.
  — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• Aemond looks distraught, but the damage is done and the first stone of the Dance of Dragons has been thrown.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Oct. 2022
• Maddie is shocked and distraught when Kyle is pulled out of Ty's car.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• Near them sat a distraught Guatemalan father and his 7-year-old son.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
• To the shock and horror of all, the distraught knight impales himself on his sword.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
• Huang, who has run restaurants in the area for 28 years, was distraught when his staff told him what happened.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• On seeing the replay after the game, Joyce was distraught.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• Wooten said his deputies are very distraught over what happened and for the family of Brown.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2021
• Johnston, like so many who had watched the April 1993 tragedy unfold on the news, was baffled and distraught.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• Bailey said her son was too distraught to talk to a reporter.
  — Glenn E. Rice, kansascity, 6 July 2018
• The neighbor screamed and became distraught over the encounter.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• For the remainder of the episode, Seema is distraught over the luxurious theft.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 29 June 2023
• Cobbertt said she and her siblings, as well as Dale's wife, are distraught and in shock.
  — NBC News, 23 Aug. 2021
• Police said Selis was distraught over a breakup with a girlfriend .
  — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 May 2017
• When their newborn failed a hearing test, Quinn and Kai were distraught.
  — Kristina Bernhardt, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2020
• As far as Baumgartner can tell, the look in Ed’s eyes is both hopeful and distraught.
  — Paul Auster, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
• The man who’d gone from installing vinyl car roofs to leading one of rock’s greatest bands was distraught.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022
• Jon Bon Jovi helped talk a distraught woman off the ledge of a Nashville bridge, police said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2024
• Even as the mothers were distraught, one of the women defended Burke.
  — Kali Nicole Gross / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024