No doubt the sight of Pierre, wandering so distressfully in the gloom, had moved him.
Motionless and hesitating in presence of the opening expanse, Pierre distressfully pondered as to whither he should go now that all which he had so passionately sought to achieve since the morning had suddenly crumbled away.
He paced up and down the floor, his huge motoring coat flapping distressfully about his legs.
Her face became ashen; her hands shookdistressfully as she clasped them tightly together.
So standing and distressfully musing, she heard the click of the Byingtons' door as Ruth left Leonard on the porch.
And then the anguish which they left unmentioned, but which they could not hide from one another, racked and stifled them, left them heaving distressfully with painful sighs.
Cynthia was distressfully conscious that the tears with which she was fighting had made her nose red, and she longed for an opportunity to use her powder-puff.
That he could not delay rejoining her much longer he was distressfully aware.
Expectantly I had been standing there, thinking to receive my money, the first I had ever earned (and to me so distressfully earned, at that).
She was rubbingdistressfully at a dab of rouge on her cheek.
Your husband, he is well, of course, anddistressfully rich.
Hargus, his eye wandering again, looked distressfully from one to the other.
Distressfully the old man put his hand to his forehead, and then thought reverted to himself, and he recalled the days when his head was subject to his will and did not, with painful persistency, nod and tremble the long day through.
An American friend had sent Miss Savine a wheel which, after a few journeys over a corduroy road, groaned most distressfully whenever she mounted it.
Black leaned against one of the men, for he was feeling distressfully ill.
And Mrs Jo caught up the plump fist, with deep dimples at each knuckle, which was fumbling distressfully at the buckle of the belt girt about a waist far too large for a youth of his age.
He described his adversary so well that the police at once identified and arrested him; but he appeared troubled with a distressfully bad memory in court to-day.
Dane fancied the boys were doing their utmost, but the progress they made appeared distressfully slow.
Surely Tom had told her nothing, for she quietly smiled at him as he stood there, awkwardly and distressfully fumbling with himself.
Louise did not hear me as I drove up, the wind was moaning so distressfully among the dead plum bushes--she did not know that I was on the place until I entered the room where she sat at the bedside of her husband.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distressfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agonizingly; badly; distressingly; excruciatingly; grievously; painfully; sadly; sorely
