(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.
Heartbroken
Definition:
(a.) Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I've never been in a relationship and been heartbroken.
(2) Yu Hongchen, the vice dean of China’s football management centre, said Team China players had been left “heartbroken” by the defeat to Syria.
(3) Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which organises the Oscars, has said she’s “heartbroken” by the lack of diversity and that AMPAS will be taking “dramatic steps” to adjust the balance of its membership to include more black and ethnic minority film-makers.
(4) She said: "We are absolutely heartbroken," and blamed his illness on a lifetime of cigarette smoking.
(5) Kaplinsky, the TV presenter who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, was said to have been “heartbroken” when private details of her wedding and honeymoon were published.
(6) "In the conclusion of the tragedy by Chekohov, everyone is disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, but alive."
(7) Without sounding like a cynical heartbroken niece, I welcome the Sports Charter and above all hope it will finally bring tolerance and change in one of the most loved games in the world.
(8) At this point in time our family is heartbroken, not able to grieve; his body is still in the mortuary all alone.
(9) Heartbroken, Paul refused to leave the Portland Place apartment, the place where his daughter passed away.
(10) Minister Stan Smith said members of the Cornerstone Community Church congregation were offering to mourn with people who were heartbroken by the news of Henning's death.
(11) As someone who had a chance to talk to him in the past, I really feel heartbroken to see how he has been treated,” said Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based Amnesty International activist.
(12) Yvette van Schalkwyk, a social worker and probation officer assigned to Pistorius after he shot dead his girlfriend, testified that he was sincerely heartbroken and sorry for what Reeva Steenkamp's parents were going through.
(13) Iwas heartbroken to read about the impact of child sexual abuse on the former footballers Andy Woodward , Steve Walters and Paul Stewart .
(14) Meanwhile , the company's founder Guy Laliberté – the stilt walker who in 2009 became a billionaire space tourist – has said he is "heartbroken" by the traumatic accident.
(15) "Twenty heartbroken families lost a child in the Sandy Hook school shooting," Green says in the video.
(16) He said that Reed remained "heartbroken" by the incident, in which he lost friends and co-workers.
(17) Fastest in tournament history Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brazil fans were heartbroken after the 7-1 defeat by Germany
(18) "We’re heartbroken that something like this might have happened again," the president said.
(19) The German media have been more awed than heartbroken by the spectacular match between Liverpool and Dortmund: “4:3!
(20) He upset already-heartbroken volunteers and activists further with this statement.