(1) Their families are said be be distraught at the news and have been clinging to the hope their daughters would want to come home.
(2) They’re all really distraught because this is another new year for them on Nauru,” she said.
(3) Following the statement, distraught relatives of Chinese passengers attacked Malaysia for announcing the crash and loss of life without direct proof, and for wasting the best chance to rescue those on board.
(4) Aware of the likely sensitivity around the issue, programme-makers had already made last-minute cuts to the New Year's Eve episode, including shots of a distraught Ronnie touching the cold hand of her dead baby, and Kat in blood-soaked pyjamas after her husband finds her haemorrhaging in her bed.
(5) He’s still distraught at not getting in to Old Trafford.
(6) And even though she was visibly distraught after the verdict was read out she feels that it wasn't going to be any other way.
(7) Distraught, I brought it into the office on Monday to gauge the opinions of my fashion colleagues.
(8) David Miliband was leaning hard towards quitting two days ago – "too distraught, too disappointed" said one ally – but if he had any doubts they were settled by the spat over the Iraq war he had with Harriet Harman , picked up by the TV cameras, during his brother's keynote speech to conference as leader on Tuesday.
(9) The Duchess was left distraught and broke down sobbing during the proceedings.
(10) The way everyone was distraught at the final whistle, meant this game was always going to be like this.
(11) She added, they are "scared and distraught, can't believe it's true, don't want it to be true".
(12) Those who want to say something about the atrocities in the Middle East may indeed be genuinely distraught, they may feel that the need to pass on this visual information places them on some unquestionable moral high ground.
(13) An elderly woman, distraught over the recent death of her husband, was found dead of an apparent suicide.
(14) Earlier in the day, Anthony Little, the brother-in-law of the uspect, emerged from the house and told NBC4 the family were "distraught".
(15) Aaron Campbell was at his girlfriend’s flat and was said to be distraught over the death of his brother, whom he had nursed before he succumbed to heart disease and kidney failure.
(16) Sitting with the child and parents in my office and seeing how distraught they all were was heartbreaking.
(17) At one point, he became so distraught that Judge Brian Keith interrupted proceedings to tell Adoboli that he shouldn't be embarrassed about becoming overrun by his emotions, and that it gave the jury a chance to "see the man behind the name".
(18) The action was described by Miss F as having left her mother, who had no involvement in the disagreement, "totally distraught" in the last weeks of her life.
(19) He is able to speak but obviously he’s absolutely distraught – he’s absolutely broken.
(20) Distraught and weeping, she was surrounded by reporters and cameramen.
Fraught
Definition:
(n.) A freight; a cargo.
(a.) Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
() of Fraught
(n.) To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
Example Sentences:
(1) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
(2) (Personally, I think a perfect contemporary drama would highlight the quiet, fraught, human, ongoing battle between those who want to live life and those who want to live life electronically.
(3) Damien Comolli, the club's director of football strategy, has confirmed Liverpool are interested in Luis Suárez of Ajax and Aston Villa's Ashley Young, although both deals are fraught with difficulty in this transfer window.
(4) Modern high-speed aviation and space flight are fraught with many problems and require a high standard of health and fitness.
(5) Government sources were adopting a cautious approach late Sunday, saying negotiations on the proposed EU treaty change in the runup to the European Council in Brussels next month would be fraught.
(6) The effort has traditionally been huge and fraught with difficulties related to the heterogeneous environment that is involved.
(7) But the run-up to the election year was fraught with unexpected twists.
(8) But the newly assertive strategy is fraught with difficulties.
(9) At best, therefore, such reports are fraught with empiricism, illustrating only the experiences of individual clinicians.
(10) Given that the relationship between parents and teenagers is one of the most fraught in family life, we asked readers to send in questions for Jensen to tackle.
(11) The demonstration of in vitro lymphocyte responsiveness to common pediatric viruses has previously been fraught with many technical and conceptual problems.
(12) In an increasingly complex world, fraught this year it seems with a zeitgeist of uncertainty, leaders must come together and focus on the long-term impact they can make in addressing our global challenges.
(13) Lucas’s own election night was long and occasionally fraught.
(14) Announcing that £38bn of troublesome loans would be ringfenced within the bank, the new chief executive Ross McEwan heralded a "resetting" of the often fraught relationship with the Treasury – owner of 81% of the shares – and the Bank of England, which regulates the bank and is poised to impose tougher rules on capital.
(15) Testing antibiotics for their activity against microorganisms is fraught with problems.
(16) Leaving aside the fact that in the real world, after a lifetime of buckets, there’s a fair chance Andy would be missing a foot, what’s even more jarring is that KFC would actually try to use the fraught process of foster care to make even more money.
(17) The IVF issue is fraught with moral and legal problems surrounding the subject of IVF experimentation--the embryo--and the effect of this experimentation of individuals, families, and society.
(18) The US expects China to quickly clear the way for Chen to travel to America after days of fraught negotiation.
(19) Davis is sanguine about her occasionally fraught on-set encounters: "It's always an act of faith.
(20) The study shows that directed biopsy is as accurate as cold conization of the cervix, is less expensive for the patient and is not fraught with as many serious hazards as is cold conization.