miseries

Example Sentences

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No wonder mud became “shorthand for the miseries of poverty,” Ms. Ziegelman writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Perhaps most painful among the nurses’ many miseries is their isolation: the secrets they keep in hopes of sparing their loved ones an iota of extra suffering.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

“You cannot blame British newspapers for the miseries heaped on the Prince and Princess of Wales,” columnist Hugo Rifkind wrote in The Times of London.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2024

"Our livelihood directly depends upon snow. A snowless season will bring miseries for our families," he says.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

‘Benedict Mady, you a fine doctor. How come I get them miseries sometime in the small of my back after I been digging and planting for a good while? How come that misery bother me?’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers