Synonyms

1. distraint

Sentence Examples

1. He could not imagine how the locomotive had become separated from the train but he did not doubt that the train left behind was in distress.
2. The man had never shown the slightest distress at the grievous wounds turning such a blind eye had inflicted on his character.
3. She was no fainting maiden in distress either, and he admired her wiles, her stealthy skills, and her quick mind.
4. She walked forward slowly, listening for any signs of distress.
5. Kila felt a sense of release as they repeated the deshya, as if he had begun to loosen his grip on the things that caused him the most distress.
6. Solitude had often weighed heavily on her, but between the prospect of spending the entire day with Lach, concealing her distress from him, and having to put on a good show for the assembly that night, she longed to be alone.
7. My distress must have shown on my face behind my sunglasses.
8. Worse, Shirley has played with my distress as a cat would box a toy, worrying, mauling with that strange fascination of the feline species.
9. They believed they were in some fantasy land of lords and ladies with damsels in distress.
10. During the whole period of my being thus employed, I endured the most terrible distress from difficulty of respiration, and bitterly did I repent the negligence or rather fool-hardiness, of which I had been guilty, of putting off to the last moment a matter of so much importance.