1 Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.

2 Weeks after the accident she remained distraught.

3 Relatives are tonight comforting the distraught parents.

4 His distraught parents were being comforted by relatives.

5 His mother's death left him utterly distraught.

6 She's still too distraught to speak about the tragedy.

7 The missing child's distraught parents made an emotional appeal for information on TV.

8 She sounded absolutely distraught.

9 I became a distraught, worried mother, a useless role if ever there was one.

10 I was distraught and let out a bellow of tearful rage.

11 The child's distraught parents pleaded for witnesses to contact the police.

12 They were terribly distraught at the news of his accident.

13 Mrs Drummond was distraught when she realised Isabelle's condition.

14 Last night, Horsewell's distraught girlfriend cancelled their church wedding.

15 Totally distraught, Amy told her parents.

16 Distraught, the fat majordomo was bustling into the pineapple.

17 The androids had pulled the shaking and distraught officer from the wreck of the room and taken him directly to their controller.

18 Distraught Ron appeals to Jimmy to help him get a gun so that he will be able to protect his family.

19 In her distraught state Polly found herself prey to the most paranoid of musings.

20 The distraught parents of the missing baby have made a public appeal for her return.

21 We were all distraught about the accident, but Mama was the most upset.

22 Andrea was too distraught to speak as police probed the tragedy at Gabalfa, Cardiff, yesterday.

23 Beals, also working up a sweat, wears a distraught look through most of the movie.

24 There he had met a distraught Isobel and her broken-hearted schoolgirl sister, Dorothy.

25 In the latter, the distraught man is painted with his hands across his chest.

26 Giap did not learn of their deaths for three years, and he was distraught when he heard the news.

27 Normally serene palms toss their woolly mop heads like distraught grieving women who can not take any more suffering.

28 I knew it was just idle threats,[] but a lot wouldn't have - they'd have been distraught.

29 All over the world prices were plummeting and so were distraught financiers.

30 Gibson and Rene Russo turn out impressive performances as the distraught parents, and Sinise is appropriately evil.

1 Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.

2 Weeks after the accident she remained distraught.

3 She sounded absolutely distraught.

31 She soaked for ten minutes, allowing the hot water to warm her body and soothe her distraught nerves.

32 Beneath his highly cool exterior he was anguished and distraught.

33 Parents, on the other hand, become distraught as they watch their delightful baby turn into a monster.

34 Simultaneously, a distraught Martin Platt, deserted by lover Rebecca, blurted out the truth about their affair to wife Gail.

35 A policewoman was trying to calm the boy's distraught mother.

36 We felt like gods as we surveyed the distraught insects' frantic efforts to remove precious eggs from sight.

37 When Dorothea enters the Lydgate drawing room, she sees distraught Will comforting weeping Rosamond.

38 None of the passengers exchanged names and addresses-they were too distraught.

39 A lot of men are distraught at not being able to give birth and there's little to be done about that.

40 The incidence of Aids also made her distraught, as did what she regarded as official complacency about it.

41 Casey was totally distraught that they were throwing him out of school.

42 He could see that I was distraught, but he still kept asking me questions.

43 Charles departs for the opera, leaving a distraught Diana to keep a bedside vigil for two days by herself.

44 Running on to the pitch I attempted to dissuade Twink, but he remained distraught and adamant.

45 His father, who lives in Basildon, is said to be distraught.

46 Su, distraught because thieves had stolen her suitcases, was arrested for allegedly failing to show police an identity card.

47 Benson was so distraught over the breakup of his marriage that he committed suicide.

48 He intends to plead not guilty, according to his lawyer, Plato Cacheris, who characterized his client as emotionally distraught.

49 Mr Say is said to be distraught after a domestic dispute at his home.

50 Her distraught family were given the bombshell news yesterday as the model lapsed in and out of horrific hallucinations.

51 Tape of the scene shot by news helicopters show a distraught woman, driving a Jaguar, wearing a fur coat.

52 When her distraught daughter shared her concern, she too began to cry.

53 Jean, distraught with grief and remorse, was put on trial.

54 Distraught parents kept an all-night vigil at the university where a temporary morgue was set up.

55 He looked distraught and haggard.

56 Dorothy is too distraught to attend the ceremony herself.

57 She was distraught with worry.

58 Stener was quite alone, worried and distraught.

59 Redding , an honour student, was so distraught and humiliated she transferred to another school.

60 It was Wu Chih - sheng. He was looking rather distraught, but managed to smile at her.

61 The children took themselves away early, for their parents were silent, distraught, and strangely unentertaining.

62 My parents, who knew even less about vegetarianism than I did, were distraught.

63 Deeply distraught over this loss, Regina spent many years in mourning.

64 "Your dollar went to help bury a mother and four-year-old son who had no reason to die, " a distraught writer from Illinois wrote.

65 Tony is shot in revenge, and Maria is left distraught.

66 The only son of King Louis VII of France fell dangerously ill and his distraught father took the astonishing decision to go to Canterbury.

67 He saw the agonising wait end for one of many distraught mothers waiting outside the school.

68 Distraught Thai, Laotian and Cambodian fisherman and farmers blame Chinese dams for killing off fish stocks, cutting irrigation and disrupting livelihoods.

69 The Oregonian later reported that an 18-year-old woman left a distraught voicemail for Wu, accusing him of an "aggressive" sexual encounter.

70 I was two months old when my distraught father sent me to Mother's favorite sister.

71 Another is distraught after an offer of a permanent job was withdrawn.

72 Here he was not surprised to meet Stener just coming out, looking very pale and distraught.

73 Allen died in 1964, at the age of 58, and Burns was distraught.

74 She has been distraught since recently breaking up with her boyfriend.

75 Newspapers said many children at the school service at St Mary's Church in Maidenhead, west of London, were distraught when Rayfield said those words.

76 Upset: In a state of emotional or mental distress; distraught.

77 Distraught with grief, I signed away my rights to the property.