A Klingon was a very distressing sight to anyone serving aboard a starship.

It was a most distressing sight, seeing the ambassador dead like that.

Maybe New Yorkers have got used to the distressing sights on their subways and streets, but they are still disturbing to an outsider.

When he got to Archie's bedside, it was a distressing sight.

He sees a few moderately distressing sights, his friend is injured, and that's about it (1:30).

Pukah turned his head from the distressing sight.

But that was not the only distressing sight.

It was one of the most distressing sights Mark had ever witnessed, so harrowing that he wanted to turn away from in it but could not.

A few weeks ago, residents woke to a distressing sight: landlords paving over their gardens.

It was a highly distressing sight.