How to Use miserable in a Sentence

miserable

adjective

• I've had a miserable cold for the past week.
• He lived in a miserable little shack.
• He had a miserable childhood.
• He felt lonely and miserable after his divorce.
• My boss is making my life thoroughly miserable with her constant demands and criticism.
• And she should be stalked for the rest of her miserable life.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• After the miserable April, here are three things to look for in May.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2023
• Here’s how to feel a little less miserable in the week ahead.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Mar. 2024
• As miserable as the past year has been, the next one will probably be worse.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 6 June 2023
• The Lakers are still sub-. 500 after a miserable start to the season.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
• The Lakers set a franchise low with the 54th loss of their miserable season.
  — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• The cold also made life miserable for those who lost their homes.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2023
• If that doesn’t happen, life is too short to be miserable.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Before his run-in with the deputy, Brock already was having a miserable day.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• The Furies of ancient Greece and Rome were also divine, a trio of miserable hags with snakes for hair.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Brooks got under the skin of Doncic, making life miserable for him throughout the game.
  — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
• That ended up being a miserable year for the market and the economy, the CEOs noted.
  — Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 16 May 2023
• Her life's been miserable, she's been hounded, harassed, lied about, lied to.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Jan. 2023
• Her life’s been miserable, she’s been hounded, harassed, lied about, lied to.
  — Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023
• Gary Wang, who walked stiffly into the courtroom and appeared frankly miserable.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
• Things are tense and Lana is bored and miserable until Jack, who has a part-time job guiding kayak tours, discovers a dead body.
  — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• But the miserable conditions that day — heavy rain and temperatures in the 30s — were in her favor.
  — Julie Mazziotta, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• Had Huntley gone low and punched over the goal line instead of losing his grip on the ball, the Bengals’ season might have come to an early, miserable end.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2023
• Actors have enjoyed being in bad movies, and have been miserable being in good movies.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• The Tide, trailing the Bulls 3-0, had a miserable first quarter before the weather intervened.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• But these stays are punctuated by time with her parents, a few weeks or months at a stretch, miserable.
  — Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• What makes people miserable is that they’ve been led to believe that workers can be happy at work.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• As miserable as that sounds, note that the voice assistants that aren't charging a monthly fee are all huge money losers.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
• Only then do his friends come to him and see the beauty in his miserable twig and his evergreen stubbornness.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• In the writer's group, either one person has to go, or everyone will stay miserable and the entire group will fall apart.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024