How to use misery in a sentence

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• Her expression changed from joy to misery after realising her winning lottery ticket had expired.From the entry expression
• The dying dog was put out of his misery with a single shot!From the entry dying
• All under the sun are subject at times to misery and misadventure.From the entry misadventure
• The depth of her misery was apparent to everyone.From the entry depth
• Well, I'll put you out of your misery: the amount we won on the lottery was only ten dollars.From the entry put someone out of their misery
• It breeds on the prejudice that poor people are to blame for their own misery.2011, Xavier Mínguez López, “Local literature in a global world? Globalisation, exclusion and multiculturalism in Catalan literature for…. From the entry aporophobia
• The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife.2009, Randy Alcorn, Edge of Eternity, →ISBN, page 258. From the entry beforelife
• But scratch the Stepfordian surface, and you'll find all kinds of misery and dysfunction lurking.2005 March, Danielle Pergament, “Camilla Belle”, in Interview, page 97. From the entry Stepfordian
• Misery can make you blame everybody else for your salty attitude.2004, J. Ransom, Colla'd Greens Fuh-ya Soul, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry salty
• There is no misery like the misery of being trapped in your own brain.2004 August 28, Hope Donahue, “Nip and tuck and nip again”, in The Guardian. From the entry tied in knots
• If the Lord wanted me to feel better, he'd put me out of my misery.1999 February 3, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Strangler's Wood”, in Midsomer Murders. From the entry lord
• Long ago he had begun to visualize this nagging misery as the insect the word also named.1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry flair
• The mythical clan belief is the only culprit of the misery in Somalia.1998 November 1, Abdiwali M Ahmed, “Would it be a sin...”, in soc.culture.somalia (Usenet). From the entry somalism
• Being around her and keeping his hands to himself was tough enough without asking for more misery.1995, Rita Rainville, chapter 8, in Hot Property, Silhouette Books, page 115. From the entry woman-scent
• That individual effort is needed to free the world from its misery and distress.1919, Charles Gerard Conn, For the Good of the World, Finding the Real God, G. Rice & Sons, page 151. From the entry self-regeneration
• By it alone we can pass through all these intricacies, through these showers of miseries, unscathed.1900 January 4, Swami Vivekananda, “Work and Its Secret”, in ramakrishnavivekananda.info. From the entry superdivine
• The UN Forces rescued me from the abyss of misery.2017, Mao Min, “The Korean War”, in The MAO Era before the Cultural Revolution (The Revival of China), number 6, →ISBN, page 84. From the entry Banmendian
• The smiling carol singers and the laughing Father Christmasses on the television seemed to make my misery more acute.2016, Bryony Gordon, “I think I might be dying”, in Mad Girl, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry Father Christmas
• Faces of misery on the people in them.2015, Donal Ryan, A Slanting of the Sun: Stories, Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth Press, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry dickied up
• Some poor fool might have been saved a lifetime of misery if the archwife had drowned in the ditch after all.2013, Barbara Metzger, Greetings of the Season and Other Stories. From the entry archwife
• All children called Darren, Wayne, Jason, Tracy, Kirsty or Kylie are destined for misery and several unsuccessful attempts at suicide.2012, Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist. From the entry Darren
• Why would someone cause all this misery and loss?2012, David Darracott, chapter 7, in Internal Security, 2nd edition, Atlanta, Ga.: Lightning Rod Books, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry for what
• Malik just stared at him, while seemingly steadying himself for some Klingonish-type deathblow to end this fool’s misery.2005, Melki [J. K. Russell], “Back to Life: 2020 A.D.”, in 21 Hustle, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 277. From the entry Klingonish
• Well, your misery is very likely self-inflicted.2004, J. Ransom, Colla'd Greens Fuh-ya Soul, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry salty
• Someone really should just put him out of his misery.1999, Alan Ball, American Beauty (motion picture), spoken by Jane Burnham (Thora Birch). From the entry lameo
• Charles had little consideration for his young wife's misery, and the queen's advisers went on encouraging their mistress's obdurance.1995, Charles Carlton, Charles I, the Personal Monarch, page 75. From the entry obdurance
• The great spiritual visions of human history have also been poisoned chalices, the causes of untold misery and even savagery.1989, Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 519. From the entry poisoned chalice
• Saskatchewan Roughrider head coach Joe Faragalli thought a main reason for his team's miseries last season was a loosy-goosy attitude.1983 June 18, Marty York, “Why did Riley call Brock?”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry loosy-goosy
• "Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions."1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 137. From the entry wearily
• He suffered untold misery in the old society.1975 March 13 [1975 March 7], “Chief of Staff of PLA Air Unit Dies in Training Exercise”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China…. From the entry untold
• And Pa, that bottle-o, drunk once on misery.1970, Patrick White, The Vivisector, Vintage, published 1994, page 574. From the entry bottle-o
• They had ceased to rouse ambition or misery.1961, V[idiadhar] S[urajprasad] Naipaul, “The Void”, in A House for Mr Biswas, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published…. From the entry rouse
• If decontrol is permitted by Albany, it will unleash a wave of goonism and racketeering that will cause untold misery.1955 February 4, S. Goodman, “Decontrol of Rents Opposed”, in The New York Times (Letters to The Times section), volume CIV, number 35451…. From the entry goonism
• Then there is the misery of leaking roofs and oozing walls, which in winter makes some rooms almost uninhabitable.1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, published 1962, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 53. From the entry uninhabitable
• Misery and a nameless nostalgic distress possessed him.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 1, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus. From the entry nostalgic
• He shrank from the prospect of being confronted next day, at the height of his misery, with these appalling reach-me-downs.1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XV, in Indiscretions of Archie. From the entry reach-me-down
• Sick at heart and oppressed with his feeling of loneliness and impotence, he could only look at her in speechless misery.1919, Ralph Connor, chapter 19, in The Major. From the entry sick at heart

Meaning of misery

1. noun Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
2. noun A bodily ache or pain.
3. noun Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.

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Questions about misery in a sentence

How do you use misery in a sentence?

Misery is used as a noun. For example: “Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.”

What is a short sentence with misery?

“Well, your misery is very likely self-inflicted.”

What does misery mean?

Misery means great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.