In a sentence
Six example sentences with distress, each labelled with its topic.
Counselors noticed that the students' distress eased once the exam timetable was published a month in advance.
Psychology
The nurse recorded the patient's distress at being separated from her dog, and the ward made an exception.
Medicine
The diary records the young governess's distress during her first winter, page after page of sleepless worry.
Literature
The jury awarded damages for emotional distress after the landlord's repeated false eviction notices.
Law
The Stoics taught that distress comes from our judgments about events rather than from the events themselves.
Philosophy
Letters home from the settlers record their distress at the long silence from the families they had left behind.
History
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