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
It claims to be able to screen out people who are nervous or stressed from those that are lying.
Any words that strike you as important or meaningful, words that you feel are stressed, biased, repeated or isolated.
Mum sounded very alarmed and distressed and told me to lock the doors. The Sun
She hopes the work could help dog owners spot when pets are stressed and find ways to improve their lives. Times, Sunday Times
You have another demanding person to consider and can feel stressed and exhausted. The Sun
He stressed he was not implying wrongdoing by anyone connected with the Minster.
He offered consumer credit with considerable success, and without, he stressed, charging the usurious rates of some rivals. Times, Sunday Times
It is the unmanaged Nature that stressed our developing beings to make us strong, that provided not only physical sustenance but the avenues for both love and loss: the genesis of human compassion.
But now the first of five translucent duplex and triplex apartments in the building at 1055 Park Ave. has just gone into contract at what brokers say was a distressed price for the prime location — less than $1,850 a square foot. Glass Condo, Rock-Bottom Price
Last year's floods were a freak event that would be expected to happen only once in 300 years, he stressed.
Socialists who stressed the struggle of the poor, like the poet Attila József, were a minority voice.
When stressed we are often the most cruel to those who we feel closest to. Times, Sunday Times
The spokesman stressed that the measures did not amount to an overall ban.
He stressed that this apparent advantage was far outweighed by the negative impact of the depleted ozone layer on humans, plants and animals. Times, Sunday Times
They seemed less stressed and they acted as if they had real control over what they were doing.
The dog trapped poorly, ran disappointingly, and when I met Marlyn with the dog at the trackside, I immediately noticed he was over duly distressed.
She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
A general equation for determining the neutral axis in partially prestressed concrete T or I Section beams with tension and compression reinforcement is presented in this paper.
Repeatedly, he stressed that the imitation of general nature was the highest aim of art.
She was overworked and stressed. The Sun
The club's former cloakroom attendant has been given the crazed grin of a bunny boiler and arms that seem more like distressed eels than human limbs. Times, Sunday Times
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Wear them with a pair of boot-cut distressed designer jeans, a thick gray wool turtleneck, and a beige or brown corduroy blazer.
The influences of rapidly changing signals to human perception can be stressed by filtering the relative spectra(RASTA) for MFCC.
Police have stressed that this is the most accurate description of the killer to date.
Newspaper leading articles stressed the dangers of the insanitary conditions in the city.
Data on the number of charities with distressed reserve funds are hard to come by, but insurance consultants report an increased number of groups seeking to "reinsure" their obligations with outside firms. Donors Find
Those at the top of the career ladder are less stressed and live longer. Times, Sunday Times
The manager was distressed by excessive work.
He reported that he was distressed by the news that one of his friends had relayed today.
Inwardly as distressed as the Thienz, Scait strode from the hall without pause to call a lackey to replace the rent limb of his throne arm. Shadowfane
When reporters went to interview her about the campaign they found her in a distressed state.
Pensioner Anthony Tanner was left highly distressed after a vandal tried to set his house on fire with a burning newspaper.
This concrete is prestressed, reducing the amount of material needed, and its color is a result of added carbon, which enhances water resistance and minimizes the visibility of damage over time.
The poorest of the poor tend to be found in remote, environmentally stressed regions, such as the drylands of Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, which is evident in Yale and Columbia's Environmental Performance Index. Land, Water And Conflict
She insisted she was in good health, despite concerns her jet-set lifestyle stressed her out. The Sun
A diet full of junk food, overeating and high amounts of caffeine was making him stressed out and miserable. The Sun
Take the case of a deal between a special servicer and the owner of a pair of distressed three-story suburban office buildings on Long Island, N.Y., known as the Fountains at Lake Success. Loan Wrangling on the Rise
I too am distressed at the construction of a bund to prevent the long-standing annual visits by Romany families to an Ilkley riverside location.
A passenger overload and militant unionism has urban public transport stressed.
Wade decided in 1973, antiabortion advocates pushed for a repeal of the decision and a total ban on abortion, while supporters of abortion rights stressed the dangers of the back-alley abortions that were in living memory. American Grace
These interior tensions are caused by the wedging action within the neighboring compressively stressed layers.
Both stressed that they were financing the expedition out of their own pockets and all the funds they raise will go directly to Oasis House.
Dr Muffett stressed that he was opposed to bullying in schools and that action would be taken to stamp it out.
With a distressed eyeroll at Seanglenn Beckhannity, and a weary headshake at Keithrachel Olbermaddowman, not to mention clenched fists of despair at TalkRadio VonHateScream, let me remind the rest of us -- aka. most people -- that just because the makers of so called News think Balanced and Thoughtful is some long-ago folk duo, it doesn't mean we should join in the sneerfest, and passively watch as standards continue to plummet. Roderick Spencer: Fake News Is the Real News
Siobhan stressed the originality apparent within the works, and described some of the processes involved in etching and printmaking in general.
The danger that lurks within these museum pieces cannot be overstressed, with the possibility of fire, electrocution or both.
With the speed of an eagle, Hamish darted up the acclivity, and stood by the minister of Glenorquhy, who was pacing out thus early to administer consolation to a distressed family near Bunawe. Chronicles of the Canongate
It is quite often stressed that consumption is an important form of self-expression and a major way of demonstrating one's identity.
“Troth, I’ll pledge naebody the night, Maister Touchwood; for, what wi’ the upcast and terror that I got a wee while syne, and what wi’ the bit taste that I behoved to take of the plottie while I was making it, my head is sair eneugh distressed the night already. — Saint Ronan's Well
The measure would eliminate commercial logging on federal public lands, promote restoration, and aid economically stressed logging communities.
He stressed he was not planning to discuss high-level issues such as the U.S. plan to deploy a theater missile defense system.
As noted in my new medicinal spice book, ginger, cinnamon, hot pepper and turmeric are just a few of the spices that can settle a distressed stomach.
_ (c) _ In stressed diphthongs and triphthongs only the vowels receiving the stress assonate, as in _vale, aire Modern Spanish Lyrics
Pressed to be more explicit, he stressed the issue is not under active consideration, there is no policy group looking at it, and in his best Washingtonese attempted to shut down the discussion saying, “I don’t want to comment on an issue we’re not talking about.” The Earnest Shaun Donovan Takes Questions
The puppy will be stressed enough without a change of diet to contend with.
She has constantly stressed the government's poor record in this area.
Doctors and experts have stressed that boiling kills the virus.
How much distressed he must have been. The Daisy Chain
Jamal and I stand on the distressed street waiting for a jitney.
With all these new issues on the horizon, the importance of this cannot be overstressed.
It's not a form of manipulation, she says, but a way of allowing the vertebrae to relax into a natural, unstressed position.
The judges - Sir Igor Judge, the lord chief justice; Lord Neuberger, the master of the rolls; and Sir Anthony May, president of the Queen's Bench - also stressed the importance of the media in supporting the principle of open justice in a case which, they said, raised issues of "fundamental importance", of "democratic accountability and … the rule of law itself". The Guardian World News
I have stressed, in the end, on prosperity but that should in no way be interpreted as a materialistic tendency.
Do they think that the average reader would be unable to understand that the Earth's ecosystems are overstressed and some of them are on the virge of collapse? Seeing the Forest
Pointing the finger of blame may be unfair and will just make us more stressed. The Sun
It was snowing so much today but i really wasnt bothered. snowed a few months a go and i basically spent the whole day outside which i do everytime it snows as well as this, when i am stressed i always have a bath. i dont know why i just always do, it helps unstress me. but now it really does not help and im as stressed as i was before i got in. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Until yesterday, this was a quiet place, even while the people on either side were clearly distressed by a new and awkward tension.
There was no note or indication he was feeling down or distressed. Times, Sunday Times
It sold about $350 million in delinquent loans and distressed properties in a bulk sale during the last quarter. Regions Financial Loss Narrows
Though their underwool was shed in summer, musk-oxen became stressed if the weather turned too warm. The Plains of Passage
I have been known to wear some pretty distressed stuff at times, since after all that is one current style.
He stressed that all times he was merely forwarding queries and requests from the man's sister.
Reasons suggested for the poor outcome in clinic cases include that they have more severe problems, come from more distressed families, and receive less empirically supported interventions from staff with heavier caseloads.
Technical consultant for the manufacture of big span prestressed concrete reiteration plate.
The Tory group has stressed that the allegations do not concern any illegal activities.
Competition and complementarity between systems are being stressed, together with an assessment of likely technological advances.
Finally, drive the car over them until they attain the distressed patina of wear and tear that is essential to your shooting-party credentials.
She had been badly shaken up and obviously distressed by the experience.
A punting cabbie is a bit stressed when he has to give Holmes a ride, and ends up in the middle of an assassination plot, and loses his ring-in rat terrier. Archive 2007-11-01
Competition and complementarity between systems are being stressed, together with an assessment of likely technological advances.
The referral letter described the marital relationship as extremely distressed, with Andrea thinking of leaving her husband.
The Prophet even advocated foreplay and stressed the importance of sexual relations within marriage.
It also stressed that monetary conditions in Japan remain "accommodative," meaning interest rates are already low enough to stimulate corporate investment and spending. Bank of Japan Lowers
I remember when I was really distressed my frown lines were deep from crying. Times, Sunday Times
And most importantly, Du Bois stressed the ways in which religious institutions can be recognized as social, communal centers which provide this-worldly rewards and comforts.
My brief review of personal care given by relatives has stressed the theme of variation, especially by gender.
The distressed skipper heard an aside which sounded something like - ‘that tells us a lot’.
You have another demanding person to consider and can feel stressed and exhausted. The Sun
Being with Lydie when she was so weak and helpless caused Jamie to become distressed.
When laminated glass is stressed beyond its breaking point, it will crack and break, but the pieces will remain in place, still attached to the window frame.
_ (d) _ In unstressed diphthongs and triphthongs only the strong vowels assonate, as in _turba, lluvia (ú-a), licencia, quisierais (é-a), pido, continuo (í-o) _. Modern Spanish Lyrics
But, conversely, this jumble drives home a point seldom stressed: Theological differences may have mattered greatly to devotees, but a bronze caster or stone carver was just as happy making a Buddha as a Vishnu; the iconographies differed, but the styles stayed the same. A Crayon Heir
Both Nunn and Solomon stressed the mutual benefits of a friendlier relationship.
A wide variety was on show with items such as long colourful floaty dresses and tops, tailored coats, funky knitwear and distressed jackets - all of which I have no doubt will be best sellers.
On the one hand the connection between the sacred and the religious is unmistakable; it is so stressed as to be obvious. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
They stressed that such intervention did not imply intervention in the internal affairs of the country concerned.
In Twenty Years After, by Dumas, when M. de Beaufort removes the poniard from the pie and says, “I hold one of these poniards to La Remee’s heart and say to him, ‘My friend, I am truly distressed, but if you make any movement or utter a cry, you are a dead man.’” A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
At the NCB event RBS stressed that it did not accept the gloomy prognosis for the Irish economy that is prevalent in the British media.
Recent reports stressed that training and education would be a stimulus to emigration.
These, Banks stressed, were not your common or garden-variety teenage runaways. AFTERMATH
Then he stressed not the long line of these sprawling movements, but their turbulence and episodic nature. Times, Sunday Times
Noting that Islam prohibits "riba," or the usurious loaning of money, it stressed that sukuk bonds (Islamic law complaint securities) are always real investments and never speculative. Columbia Daily Spectator
Surrounding each image is a hand-painted, distressed border with decorative accents.
Vorster himself, the initiator of the 'verlig' trend, has stressed the basic need to preserve a separate Afrikaner identity. The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 15
Sheriff Sandra Hutchens apologized for what she called the unprofessional conduct of staff members, but stressed the opinions revealed by the text messages had nothing to do with the increased security at the next board meeting. The Orange County Register - Homepage
He said he stressed to Mr Mandelson that a key issue for Ireland is the mandate given to the Commission by the EU member states in these negotiations.
All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels. Set in Silver
As Taylor has stressed: Value is not inherent in, nor is it carried by, an information message.
He stressed the importance of redoubling their efforts this year to ensure the needs of the club and the community will be met.
The President stressed a favourite campaign theme-greater emphasis on education.
Other writers stressed the need for a samurai to set an example to the lower orders of society by his conduct.
In view of this, the committee stressed the need to restrict the availability of highly hazardous pesticides.
The news of my mother's death distressed me greatly.
A lower proportion of highly stressed women than less stressed women were premenopausal and used oral contraceptives.
And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
Whether it was analyzing Lee Trevino or counseling Mickey Wright, Penick stressed remaining true to your natural swing tendencies while observing a few basic guidelines.
The glass was then -- I'll just use the word impregnated -- but it had a layer of metal that was called stressed metal. Joshua Prince-Ramus on Seattle's library
He stressed the importance of mounting an invasion of France to relieve pressure on Soviet forces fighting in the German - Soviet war, and added that the French Riviera landings would be an essential adjunct to it.
So everyone was very stressed, a bit short-staffed.
But Mr Blyth stressed it was a mistake by the outside contractors who printed the ballot forms.
Christ may sleep when his church is in a storm, but he will not outsleep himself: the time, the set time to favour his distressed church, will come, Ps. cii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
In a rare show of optimism, Mottaki stressed that a settlement could be reached on the nuclear issue.
She stressed that the other EU states took the same stance, and added that she was waiting for a reply from the United States.
The bishop stressed the importance of faithfulness in marriage.
He stressed that it will be a mammoth undertaking.
But if you are fatigued, be prepared to face the reality that we are all overworked, overstressed and overbooked.
The passage and piaffe were marvellous and we did a really good extended trot - it felt even better than Amsterdam because the horse was not stressed like he was there, this time he was much happier. Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines
‘Ironically,’ notes Miller, ‘the sort of feminist reading which stressed Charlotte's victimhood unintentionally reproduced the martyrology of the Victorians.’
In such a harmonious family environment, family members do not exercise a high degree of independence, and collectivism rather than individualism is stressed.
The keys for lexical access are stressed syllables in the word corresponding to the input syllable type.
The best readings of Inland Empire have rightly stressed the film's labyrinthine, rabbet-warren anarchitecture," writes k-punk. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 4/23.
So Ng Yen Yen, please convey to Todt that I am 'affronted' and 'distressed' that somehow money is involved when he supposedly took the position voluntarily. Malaysiakini :: News
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
Often, this does not help the originally distressed community if high-end homes are built, a process called gentrification, and no provisions are made for prior neighborhood residents.
short vowels are unstressed
But the Pentagon has stressed that the official end to Operation Iraqi Freedom - the US military mission in the country - remains scheduled for the end of the month.
Moreover, as noted in section 5.2.1, there is a marked tendency for polysyllabic words to commence with a stressed syllable.
Also, water and natural, unsweetened fruit juices help calm stressed-out nerves.
The news of my mother's death distressed me greatly.
Whether it was analyzing Lee Trevino or counseling Mickey Wright, Penick stressed remaining true to your natural swing tendencies while observing a few basic guidelines.
Consideration of the most common of those variations, the spondaic (two stressed) and the pyrrhic (two unstressed), which are often found together forming what some have called the ionic foot, completes the chapter walking us into consideration of the line. THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO
Many of my students were too stressed to verbalize their feelings.
[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
However it is still a good play, with a lapidary style and some interesting and original thematic concerns and imagery that are forcibly stressed.
In many cases police reported that they were attempting to stop distressed people committing suicide. Times, Sunday Times
It would be very strange for any country of South Africa's uranium capacity -- and we've done enrichment before -- not to beneficiate its uranium deposits," South African Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin said in an interview, though he stressed the country would strictly comply with the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the world's nuclear watchdog. Africa Has Nuclear Hopes
In addition to inflicting grave injustices on property owners, takings that transfer property to powerful private interests are not needed to rescue distressed urban areas.
That approach, most recently stressed in the America's Climate Choices reports from the National Academies, is now called "iterative risk management. NYT > Home Page
Since the network is well-appreciated as soft, thermal fluctuations even in an unstressed portion of network were expected to be many tens of nanometers based on simple equipartition ideas.
Water-stressed plots were sufficiently watered until plants were on their third trifoliate leaf, and then 50% of the available water capacity (20% w/v water in soil) was maintained until harvest.
The surface of the table has become distressed by time. There would be no space beneath such a thing to languish.
Romney's advisers stressed that he met all his federal tax obligations, provided maximum transparency and did not take advantage of what they described as "aggressive" strategies often used by the ultra-rich. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The coronation ceremony stressed his semi-spiritual quality, which seemed proven by the alleged power of the royal touch to cure the skin disease scrofula.
Is this the perfect storm - an exploding population of opportunistic Gram-negative bacteria (some natural, some not), millions of gallons of food (oil) for the bacteria, and a susceptible population of stressed-out people? Riki Ott: Bio-Remediation or Bio-Hazard? Dispersants, Bacteria & Illness in the Gulf
Barbara declared afterwards, was magnificent, and plodded her way through bread sponges flavoured with soup, assuring the distressed cook that it was really quite remarkable "potage," and that she had never tasted anything like it before -- all of which, of course, was perfectly true. Barbara in Brittany
Stressed syllables retain full vowel quality, whereas unstressed syllables may have weak vowels.
The memo listed the potential side effects of ephedra and stressed that the HHS warning was directed to "athletes and those who engage in strenuous physical activities. USATODAY.com - Players union issues ephedra warning
Jim Leyritz said he was distraught and "overstressed" - but not suicidal - before he checked into a psych ward. NY Daily News
Technical consultant for Manufacture of big span prestressed concrete reiteration plate.
In India, however, where interrogations like genethlialogy were introduced in the second century by the Yavanajātaka, the relationship of the art to the second type of divination (familiar through the versions of Babylonian omen literature in the saṃhitās) was not ignored; from the earliest times the need for ritual purity and preparation is stressed. ASTROLOGY
The weight of the water accumulated at the drain, where it overstressed the deck and the structure, and the building came down at a cost of about $2 million.
Here he stressed Nehru's commitment to the emancipation of women and untouchables, to communal harmony and the maintenance of a united and plural India, and to the fostering of a socialist economics.
Yesterday the Environment Agency advised against extravagance with ‘a precious resource’ but stressed there was no serious cause for concern.
The easy rule is: It’s almost impossible for English verse to have three unstressed syllables in arow. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet
Northern legends represent Buddha as having "incarnated" for the purpose of bringing relief to a distressed world. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
They stressed that staff would not be actively discharging anyone and no programme was in place to reduce the number of users by a set target.
The use of extraordinary precious materials make each piece unique: matte alligator, de-stressed crocodile, mink or lapin with snakeskin and anaconda.
Occasionally the term choriambus is used of English verses - a foot made up of two light syllables between two stressed ones.
We continually stressed that we were leaving so we would be safe and that we were not in danger.
The timing of that visit depended on the ‘final consummation of the peace process in Northern Ireland’, Mrs McAleese stressed.
He stressed that the accounts have been audited internally, are open to public inspection and will be assessed by an external auditor.
As they talked together, I was distressed to hear them recounting episodes of racial strife that they had seen.
His name on her lips sounded so distressed and pained.
The normally-stressed vowel is deleted, with stress shifted back to the initial syllable.
Ludlum stressed that long-term sandbag storage is a pilot project. Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
Manchester A mother was confused and distressed when a rare form of amnesia caused her suddenly to forget 16 years of her life. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Birt himself has stressed his desire to transfer support services out from the central bureaucracy in London.
This year some producers may benefit from using a drought-stressed grain crop for livestock forage.
he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing
It has been stressed the setting up of the advice line does not imply any guilt.
In this population, socially advantaged men perceived themselves to be most stressed, leading to a confounded association between higher stress and better health.
Modern aircraft are sophisticated and often built from highly stressed, lightweight materials.
I have been extremely distressed by the religious and ethnic violence that is widespread in certain parts of Indonesia and am chagrined that the government has not seen fit to protect innocent Indonesian citizens from that violence.
Given an increasing incidence of Japanese parents '' abducting '' their children to Japan even though their spouses of different nationality have custody over the children, Miliband stressed the need to tackle the issue. Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
The importance of finding a set of etic dimensions and corresponding and yet valid and reliable measures on which ethnic groups may be compared is stressed by our findings, which may represent a step in this direction.
Distressed Duenna, on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined; but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight, Don Don Quixote
In this case as in most planning applications, the board was always going to adjudicate on the matter,’ he stressed.
But he stressed that it should be possible to achieve the job reductions through natural wastage, with 20,000 people leaving work every year.
He sees you stressed and unhappy, cannot think how to make you feel better and so is feeling useless. The Sun

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