How to Use misery in a Sentence

misery

noun

• The last years of her life were a misery.
• The war brought misery to thousands of refugees.
• Stop being such a misery.
• They were living in overcrowded slums in conditions of great misery.
• As the volume increases, so do the chaos, misery, death, and fear.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022
• At its heart, the invasion has killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians and brought misery to many more.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• Trump’s lies about pet-eating migrants has brought misery to Springfield, Ohio.
  — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
• Here are seven of the most common ovulation pain issues, and how to mitigate the misery.
  — Karla Walsh, Woman's Day, 15 July 2022
• On both sides of the Atlantic, people have shared triple digit misery, and talking about the weather has meant more than making small talk.
  — CBS News, 24 July 2022
• The Browns have lost three of their first four games, and familiar sensations of dread and misery are creeping back into the psyches of local sports fans.
  — Sam Allard, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024
• Adding to the misery, overnight lows will struggle to drop below 75-80 degrees, limiting the body’s ability to cool off at night.
  — Derek Van Dam, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
• And following the misery of 2023, observers and fans of the New York baseball scene want this to go on for as long as possible.
  — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• Raccoon dogs, a spaniel-size canine bred and sold in China both for their meat and luxurious fur, are one of the likeliest sources of the last 2½ years of human misery.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022
• And while Volvo may have found a way out of the production misery caused by a lack of semiconductors, many carmakers are still struggling to find enough chips to meet consumer demand.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 20 July 2022
• While flyers have taken the biggest hit, rail passengers, too, are getting their share of misery — from an increase in delays and cancellations to long waits in customer service lines.
  — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• Research shows us that financial hardship leads to a vicious cycle of unhappiness: Recession begets misery, which makes for more economic bad times.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
• Opponents of Sri Lanka’s leadership have yet to achieve their greater goal: securing a unity government to lift the country out of economic misery.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2022
• The misery of the bed-maker is kind of the whole point of the adage.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
• In the last year, Jon has brought me a lot of pain and misery.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
• There’s a sense of misery, but there’s a lot of fun in these.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2022
• With all the misery around him, Miguel Chavez, 26, caught a lucky break.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
• The misery cranks up soon enough on No. 3, the shortest par-4 hole.
  — Alan Blinder Doug Mills Chris O’Riley, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• We’re stuck in the idea of the victim and social misery.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 30 Nov. 2023
• No, what was off was the timing, the misery of the moment.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Who cares if the team that put an end to the misery happens to be on the way out?
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022
• Lavrov was still stuck — and the months after his friends got out were a blur of misery.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• My husband had to knock door to door to find a gun to be able to put the rest of the sheep out of their misery.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 1 May 2024
• Yes, after years of misery on ice, the Sharks have hope.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
• So, this pokes fun at that — the gloss and the misery of modern sports gambling.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2024
• One catch at the wall from wiping away some of the misery in St. Pete.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024