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

He became distressfully aware of his wife's silence, simultaneously ascertained the cause of it, and cut his speech short in full stride.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

"What a country! what an awful country!" exclaimed May, distressfully.

From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward

“But I don’t know what to do,” she returned distressfully.

From The Stronger Influence by Young, F.E. Mills