Example Sentences

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The bag is weather resistant and the leather will distress beautifully after a few seasons.

From Golf Digest • Jun. 12, 2018

Doubtless The Bitter Tea of General Yen will distress cinemaddicts who cherish the illusion that under Tsar Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong.

From Time Magazine Archive

But never, never if it will distress his mother.

From Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor by Cobb, Frank

Poor Tom—that woman—and Poetry were ringing changes in my senses—Now I am in comparison happy—I am sensible this will distress you—you must forgive me.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John

If you cry out your mother may hear, and you will distress her.

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma