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.
• 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
• Adding to the misery is the fact that Rodgers suffered a sprained ankle in the game.
  — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• In other parts of the country, the misery set in weeks ago.
  — New York Times, 21 May 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
• But the storm is only the latest misery to befall the town.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
• To add to the misery, the highways are strewn with potholes, making for a bumpy ride.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 2 June 2022
• If the monster tree on your front lawn is on its last legs, put it out of its misery.
  — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
• The blue line held steady and, at times, spiked into mountains of misery.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• The stench is like an accent on this form of human misery.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 May 2023
• Record or not, that likely means a lot of bathroom misery across the US now and in the coming weeks.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
• Such misery is bound to happen when self-doubt creeps in.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2022
• There will be moments when one wonders if all of the misery was for naught.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
• Vast tent camps have sprung up in the south, where heavy rain in recent days has worsened the misery.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• The heat was the second in what the weather service said will be week-long misery in some places.
  — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
• The first month of me learning the accordion, her life must have been misery.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024