misery

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal

They described Koohkan, who had one brother, as "someone who didn't like to see people in this state... in this misery".

From BBC

Everything feels so wet and lush this January that it’s hard to imagine that a fire in the same month, a year ago, could have caused so much misery.

From Los Angeles Times

Drizzle arrived in the final moments of day two of the fifth Ashes Test but this was a day English misery poured.

From BBC

Far from ushering in a better future, the 30 years since then have been a period of almost unbroken misery for the Haitian people.

From BBC