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 | [email protected], 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
• So, when the Rays tacked on two more, it all but put the Red Sox out of their misery.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• In other parts of the country, the misery set in weeks ago.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2022
• So is this the Vikings' chance to end their long stretch of misery in Chicago?
  — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• And so, of course, the Scarlet Knights dropped all their misery off with the Hoosiers, to keep it safe for 2022.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2021
• But now folks are lining up to put the virus out of our misery.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021
• 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
• In Mitchell, the mounting misery changed some minds, but not many.
  — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
• That’s a recipe for in-flight misery.
  — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026
• Mark Carey How did Wissa make up for a year of misery?
  — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 17 June 2026
• Drivers play nice and behave, saving each other from rage, being late, or the misery of a crash.
  — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
• Knicks fans know all about the misery part.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
• Their pairing begs the question of whether misery and mirth alternate, blend, or coexist.
  — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 14 June 2026