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.
  • That’s a recipe for in-flight misery.
    — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026
  • Knicks fans know all about the misery part.
    — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
  • Don’t add up the grades, add up the misery.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There’s a sense of misery, but there’s a lot of fun in these.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 24 Aug. 2022
  • This was naive, and would only lead to greater misery.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But now folks are lining up to put the virus out of our misery.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Thirteen days of misery, and then the ship stopped.
    — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In the last year, Jon has brought me a lot of pain and misery.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The misery of the bed-maker is kind of the whole point of the adage.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2022
  • There has been a random bright spot in the past two decades of misery, though.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
  • His lifestyle had been her misery.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Then the men took turns reeling the fish in, and putting them out of their misery.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Lavrov was still stuck — and the months after his friends got out were a blur of misery.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • If the monster tree on your front lawn is on its last legs, put it out of its misery.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 17 June 2024
  • Buddy, just put us all out of our misery and hand out the rose already.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • There will be moments when one wonders if all of the misery was for naught.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Don’t let that misery keep you from engaging in this space.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
  • One day, to break away from his misery, the narrator goes on a hike.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Yes, there have been a few good years sprinkled into the decades of misery.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2020
  • In Mitchell, the mounting misery changed some minds, but not many.
    — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Each has their own heart-wrenching story of abuse and misery.
    — Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Malachi breaks this long run up the middle to put these people out of their misery.
    — Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 28 May 2026
  • The blue line held steady and, at times, spiked into mountains of misery.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • All around him, there is misery and hoarded wealth, work and little love.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But the past three seasons have been utter misery.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025

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