Example Sentences

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Thus after six distressfully disputatious days at Scranton.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sybil!" moaned Mrs. Lawton, distressfully, "I don't wish to rebuke you at the very moment of leave-taking, but, my very dear child, you must really check your tendency toward reckless speech.

From A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage by Morris, Clara

"I must go home," she murmured to herself distressfully, as she slipped unobserved through the crowded rooms.

From The Torch Bearer by Marquis, Reina Melcher

They go off dizzily, he stares distressfully after them and 203 at last cries to them to meet him for a last time the same evening in the grove behind Diana’s temple.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney