stressed

How To Use stressed In A Sentence

• The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless.
• And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
• When stressed we are often the most cruel to those who we feel closest to. Times, Sunday Times
• In a statement, the Department stressed its handling of all aspects of BSE fully accords with EU and national legislation.
• Give him some relaxing massages to help him feel less stressed and to reconnect physically. The Sun
• Chronically stressed mammals produce hormones called glucocorticoids, which can suppress certain immune-system and gonadal functions when the hormones remain elevated.
• When we arrived she was in such a distressed state that we had to treat it with the upmost seriousness.
• The poor little mite was obviously distressed and was hobbling around on its good leg, often resting on the ground.
• After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind. American Notes for General Circulation
• But then, you reread the first sentence of this paragraph, see the word "binding" and become stressed out even more. Taylor Nunley: Early Decision, Late Opinion