DISTRAUGHT in a Sentence

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1. Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.
2. Her father had recently died and her mother was still distraught from the loss.
3. He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.
4. A young man, looking distraught, pounced down on the ladies, asking them to move aside.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISTRAUGHT
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distraught
 a.  deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict; mad; insane
Classic Sentence:
1  He could distinctly see the distraught yet angry expression on the faces of these two men, who evidently did not realize what they were doing.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
2  A young man, looking distraught, pounced down on the ladies, asking them to move aside.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
3  He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
4  Catherine was near distraught: still, she persisted that she must go home, and tried entreaty in her turn, persuading him to subdue his selfish agony.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  Her father had recently died and her mother was still distraught from the loss.
2  Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.