How To Use Misery In A Sentence

He bears misery best who hides it most.
And while some of us will be hoping for a balmy summer to follow, that could spell more misery for many. The Sun
Sensation - seeking newspapers tried to cash in on her misery.
The actress is asking the court to protect her from an obsessive fan who is making her life a misery.
People feared the development would cause traffic gridlock and claimed noisy fans would make their lives a misery.

He stared in dumb misery at the wreckage of the car.
Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. RVM
As to Morgan: the sooner the old bumbler is put out his own (and Wales's) misery, the better. Cheryl Gillan Shines on Question Time
Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes but never stays. RVM
When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
This book is an unremitting account of misery, privation, and pointlessness in a world of dun landscapes, tormenting insects, malnutrition, and cultural stagnancy.
You know how it is when to stay feels like an eternity of misery, even with the promise of a multi-tiered orchid-bestrewn imported from the UK chocolate wedding cake? June 2005
You want to look at any philosophy that millions of people subscribe to, and some bad things are going to happen - but to my knowledge "godlessness" has really only been around for about 100 years, and in that amount of time its probably led to more murder, misery and mans 'inhumanity to man than all the other "isms" ever created. Sound Politics: Obsession Shown At Cedar Park
Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
Instead, he's refusing to do his exercises and just wallowing in his misery. The Sun
A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
Do you live with or work with or are you married to a real misery guts?
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery. Anne Frank
Faced with the reality of being alone for the first time she talked openly and honestly with John about her feelings: her disgust with herself, her fear of failing at her job, her growing conviction that her childlessness was a punishment, and the frequent wish that she could simply die and put an end to her misery. Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
As such, they can do with inputs from an Advisory Board which meets once a quarter or so to review the business and [...] - In ongoing work to identify how genes interact with social environments to impact human health, UCLA researchers have discovered what they describe as a biochemical link between misery and death. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Extremists will forever be able to demagogue conditions of misery, making continued U.S. involvement in asymmetric warfare an increasingly counterproductive exercise — because killing one terrorist creates five more in his place. Facebook Says…
It is absurd and morally indefensible to continue with a policy that causes so much hardship, misery and wastes councils' time and resources. Times, Sunday Times
Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
To be fair, with hindsight I would not have done the masters which is currently making my life a misery.
If all they've done is suffer an unhappy marriage, we should leave them to their marital misery.
It means that mourners feel especially freakish and isolated, often even unentitled to speak of their misery. Times, Sunday Times
She could do nothing for herself, she could only obey Joan's dictates, and this she did in listless misery. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
Misery of the most exquisite kind was tearing her heart in pieces, stabbing her throat with long, forklike pains. Rose O'Paradise
We permitted millions of people to die or be reduced to misery and pauperdom.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Joseph Joubert
Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
I fully expect in the future we shall have misery memoirs written by parents. The Sun
I mean tragedy in the classical sense in which the hero's misery is embedded in his triumph.
This is why, Majrouh wrote, landays are "a cry of separation" from the idea of love and a revelation of the misery of misalliance.
Those who are put off by misery memoirs in general should avoid it. Times, Sunday Times
Organized psychiatry must publicly articulate our vision, positions and commitment to the amelioration of human misery.
I think you should put the poor creature out of its misery.
The wet summers over the past few years have piled on their misery. Times, Sunday Times
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery. Alexander Pope
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Joseph Joubert
Teenage troublemakers who are causing upset in a corner of Morecambe are being warned against inflicting further misery on residents.
Nowhere was it tried - and I mean real socialism, not welfare statism - where tyranny, misery, poverty, fear and oppression failed to follow.
As though poor Azoka had not enough misery, her mother took away her trinkets to decorate the bear, and forced her to smear her pretty, ochred face with cinders. Fort Amity
All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
The fight for survival was the topical issue in Italy after World War II and privations, hardships and misery were everywhere.
By talking to young people the LSPCA hoped to promote the importance of neutering their pets to reduce the hundreds of animals living in misery.
They are taking advantage of people 's misery. The Sun
As I start to wonder about the legitimacy of the test, Alain becomes altogether more aggressive, demanding what I plan to do about the advanced state of misery and moral turpitude in which I have found myself.
Hurt and deeply jealous, she stalked him for 18 months causing misery and harassment to the pair.
Fearless, lawless and sowing misery with a careless abandon, their reign seems uncontested. Times, Sunday Times
He and Wazzock have decided to team up with the common goal of inflicting some misery on the troubled teenager.
It could result in a lifetime membership of misery and droopy mammaries.
The Japanese staff bowed their heads in abject misery. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
It has a few pitiful wretches for clubs, places which would, in Manchester, have been put out of their misery long ago.
This was not the only source of misery that became apparent in the course of our conversation.
I am abhorrently evil and I feed on misery and death This would have made EXCELLENT ammo against the inhuman, barbarian right-wing devils who eat babies. Matthew Yglesias » Goldfarb Endorses Terrorist Ethics
Every moment of the fashion industry's misery is richly deserved by the designers and magazine poltroons who perpetuate this
Szentkuthy stood as a beacon in this darkness of misery and cruelty.
Spread-betters were looking to profit from the misery of football punters by buying the share prices of the bookmakers. Times, Sunday Times
Their deception has inflicted immeasurable pain and misery on the victims. The Sun
Who would wish a life of loveless misery upon a warm-hearted, sensitive young girl?
The same prospect of misery hung over the head of another tenant of this hard - hearted lord of the soil.
Your erratic behaviour is setting them up for potential future misery. Times, Sunday Times
But, alas, the printed word can not adequately convey the panting, gasping misery of this particular torment.
Putting him out of his misery is as much a crime as finishing off a wounded enemy. Times, Sunday Times
The setting is one of abject poverty and misery, yet the upbeat caption tells us that even victims of disaster need a good shoeshine.
Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life? A Philosophical Dictionary
What would be accepted as evidence if not disease, madness, misery, irrationality, frustration, criminality and sickness, that a tragic disparateness now exists between the needs of human beings and the imperatives of society. Rogue Of Gor
A couple have vowed not to be pushed out of their own street by gangs of youths they say have made their lives a misery for years.
It is still a tale of thwarted hopes and suppressed unhappiness, but the misery she reveals is calamitous only in its traumatic effects on one family.
I walked on, feeling sick to the stomach as I saw so much misery and ruination.
The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet. The Golden Asse
What's particularly interesting about this mailer is that the "Hooverville," of course, was a symbol of government inaction in the face of the poverty and widespread misery of the Great Depression. Right-wing group's mailer warns of "Obamavilles"
For me, I wouldn't want any fancy-schmancy second-guessing by so-called "ethicists" whose ethics I might not share anyway, and certainly not by religious types, but would want simple help in ending my misery. Too Annoying!
O afflicter of thy foes, in compensation for all this vast misery wrought by Dhritarashtra's son, thou wilt attain to proportional happiness after having killed thy foes, O great king, O lord of men, the ways of the world are known to thee. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
In an hour of such turmoil and anguish and misery and suffering and trial and loss, can you imagine having a companion like that? Christianity Today
All this confusion and misery is going to blow away like a puff of smoke, and I'm going to be cured?
The pride of the poor people is infinitely great, and exceeded by nothing but their poverty, in some parts, which adds to that which I call their misery; and I must needs think the savages of America live much more happy than the poorer sort of these, because as they have nothing, so they desire nothing; whereas these are proud and insolent and in the main are in many parts mere beggars and drudges. The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
Then the River Wharfe at the top of the lane bursts its banks, bringing flood water, mud and misery to the close - knit community.
War begets misery and ruin.
It is enough that “my lud” has a handle to his name, and Murray Hill shoddyocracy will wine and dine and toady him, and perhaps for his title marry him to some sweet, pure and good American girl, whose life hereafter will be a purgatory to herself and a mutual misery to both. Black and White
Instead, he's refusing to do his exercises and just wallowing in his misery. The Sun
Not necessarily a bad thing if the billions raised or recklessly borrowed are then used to lift the deserving poor out of misery. The Sun
One person 's misery is another's opportunity. Times, Sunday Times
We know how much misery pain is able to bring upon the body in this life; (in which our pains and pleasures, as well as other things, are but imperfect;) there being never a limb or part, never a vein or artery of the body, but it is the scene and receptacle of pain, whensoever it shall please God to unfence it, and let in some sharp disease or distemper upon it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
The nasty plotters who were found guilty yesterday have inflicted misery on untold millions. The Sun
That thought, which completes the voluntary disherison of the mother, adds to the misery of her last moments and fills them with such a flood of remorse and regret that, notwithstanding her determination to be brave, she weeps and weeps. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
I was sent to boarding school, where I spent six years of unremitting misery.
Normally his family life, with lecturer wife Paula and two teenage children, is a nice counterpoint to the mayhem and misery his work uncovers.
In the process, the patient is willfully blinded to the conduct that inevitably causes his misery in the first place.
No more going on court in bad shape, no more wallowing in misery. Times, Sunday Times
In an hour of such turmoil and anguish and misery and suffering and trial and loss, can you imagine having a companion like that? Christianity Today
It waged holy war on the devil's kingdom of unbelief, and sought to bring the ‘vast continent of vice, crime and misery’ that was London's East End to salvation.
This brought untold misery to thousands. The Sun
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Alexandre Dumas
Not brazened-it-out, or wrapped-himself-in-pridefulness (the surest sign of struggle), simply free, by what conjunction of insight or ignorance I am still at a loss to imagine, from the universal misery of fitting-in - the-body. Two Poems
It is as though a great curtain has been lifted on our lives and beyond is this seething mass of misery. Times, Sunday Times
She caused untold hardship and misery to millions of families who suffered needless unemployment.
Indeed, reducing adverse drug events should ultimately save hospitals money as well as spare patients misery, the researchers say.
A This is a shocking tale of shoddy treatment by a massive firm causing you misery. The Sun
Empathy for the criminal's childhood misery does not imply exoneration of the crimes he committed as an adult.
The pulp novelist, Dan Dark, is a man in misery.
If they are redeemed, then are they delivered from all misery, virtually or actually, whereunto they were inthralled, and that by the intervention of a ransom. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
The owler only refrained because he became aware of his daughter's presence, and to his great bewilderment read in her face not horror or misery, but a strange passionate relief. In Kings' Byways
Let's compare that emote to "Dudeguy hides his broken, bleeding heart, his stoic visage masking the inutterable misery of his soul. WoW.com
He can only hope such action is measured, effective and does not add to the misery of some of the world's poorest and most oppressed people.
He was sure that even the crimes that were due to abnormity would cease of themselves when there were no longer hidden reminders of misery in the community. Pelle the Conqueror — Complete
Bring utter misery and chaos to millions of people by going on strike. The Sun
The headlong rush by the brewers to switch tenants to long leases is creating misery and hardship.
When the school bell chimed, Joe slowly joined the crowd funnelling through the school entrance, racked with envious misery. A BOY’S BEST FRIEND • by S.J. Higbee
Your erratic behaviour is setting them up for potential future misery. Times, Sunday Times
Wealthy in the learned misery of my cimmerian temperment, one imploringly seeks forbearance, from those who have made apocryphal thrones before those Muses; Calliope, Clio and Erato - disremember not that all things circumduct the calamity of Melpomeme and droll Thalia. ShoutWire.com
A tiny, educated elite profited from the misery of their two million fellow countrymen.
His resistance to her demand will be as harmful as compliance, but her misery commands his sympathy.
A day was coming, and it was the day of reality for which he lived, ever present and ever certain, when this sad world was to put _off for ever_ its changefulness and its misery, and the grave was to be robbed of its victory, and the bodies were to come forth purified by their long sleep. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
Nor did he recieved huges lump sums of money garner from the misery of those who WERE defrauded! Obama's VP vetter steps aside
If no skyborn messenger, heaven looking through his eyes; then neither is it a chimera with his systems, crotchets, cants, fanaticisms, and last infirmity of noble minds, full of misery, unrest and ill-will; but a substantial, peaceable, terrestrial man. Paras. 25-49
Commuters faced more misery on Thursday after a train was derailed just outside Bedford.
It gives a real insight into the sheer drudgery and misery behind pop success. The Sun
How much lower the fashion for wallowing in misery as entertainment can sink remains to be seen. Times, Sunday Times
Swiftly introduce new legislation to put an end to the trauma and misery suffered by child witnesses in court proceedings.
I shot the poor beast in the head to save it from its misery, and me from mine.
It is comparatively easy to write about deprivation - to record the pathos of living in misery.
─but the hail has other reasons than serving and the wet eastern wind of evening does not dream of standing watch by my disenchanged lion sobs: no longer will I run after every passage of beauty,─beauty is defeated, never again at attention will I snuff out that fire now glimmering like an old tree trunk in which hollow swallows make nonsensical nests, child's lay, unreckoning misery, unreckoning misery of sympthy. Amelia Rosselli
she was exhausted by her misery and grief
Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness for ever. Chapter 3
They could not break the cycle of harvest failure, food shortage, price increase and misery.
One usually associates poverty with misery.
The tape captures the band and frontman Ronnie James Dio being unable to erase the misery of Ozzy's departure, and to make peace with the democratic revolt of their audience.
Aleila looked at the desponding bandit, and even though he had brought this misery on himself, she couldn't help but feel sad for him.
The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable.
Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome. The Romance of the Forest
The effect is to reilluminate a familiar dichotomy that we all know and often deny: Peace and war, joy and misery, are as unstoppable and eternal as the ebb and flow of tides. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
I felt as if I was relieved from a heavy weight, when the packet sailed with a fair wind from Ireland, and I had quitted for ever the country which had been to me the scene of so much misery. Chapter 4
The numbers of millionaires and billionaires has grown in direct proportion to the numbers condemned to lives of misery and hardship.
If newspaper editors continue to sugar-coat the human misery of disasters like the Asian tsunami, they'll lose relevance as more people move to the Internet to see what's really happening.
She will make my misery more tolerable, my slavery only half-slavery, my exile less a banishment.
Equally, no plumb line can fathom the depths of my misery at sitting through this overlong, mediocre serial. Times, Sunday Times
In less than a minute, he could destroy me utterly, reducing me to a tearful, trembling wreck, consumed with a wretched, self-loathing misery.
No prison will be too overcrowded to break the back of those who deal in the misery of our people through dealing in and selling drugs such as tik to our children," he said. ANC Daily News Briefing
As was the case in World Wars I and II, we are up against sociopathic sub-humans who despise the common man, are capable of great cruelty brought on by their indifference to human misery and whose ultimate plan is to dehumanize and bestialize humanity. [fragmented society] the fish rots at the head
One of patients is a young woman forced to endure the pain and misery of rheumatoid arthritis. Times, Sunday Times
From this we note that the Guardian too does not regard support for sharia law – which involves of necessity subordinating English law and liberty to principles such as condign punishment for gays and adulterers, second class status and misery for women and ... On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The people who are refugees in their own land will keep living in distress, fear and misery.
It is absurd and morally indefensible to continue with a policy that causes so much hardship, misery and wastes councils' time and resources. Times, Sunday Times
Their misery has been my biggest disappointment and they will compete in the third tier for a sixth consecutive season. Times, Sunday Times
The Japanese staff bowed their heads in abject misery. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Now we have a ghastly split between the mundane, apparently unsusceptible to any form of artistic transfiguration, and pure music whose splendour and misery are that it is uncontaminated by reality.
Men who see the misery and despair produced by capitalism think with joy of the days to come when the misery and despair are replaced by gladsomeness and hope. The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg
What about price inelastic sectors where bad, light or unenforced regulation would create unimaginable misery? The Times Literary Supplement
Many are orphans and the trauma of conflict is being compounded by the misery of exile. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, in the furrows and stubble of Branagh's pudgily perplexed face, all of this misery was an absolute delight. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
War causes universal misery.
Four days after this learned 'lucubration' the voice of the warm-hearted magistrate speaks in a reminder of the prevailing abject misery of the London poor who “in the most miserable lingering Manner do daily perish for Want in this Metropolis.” Henry Fielding A Memoir
With the duck put out of its misery, he told me he'd dispose of the body. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
What mountains of lifelong human misery are caused by the likes of this loser? The Sun
He sat slumped over his desk, the picture of misery.
Consequently, to be able to despair is an infinite advantage, and yet to be in despair is not only the worst misfortune and misery — no, it is ruination. I want to be somebody! Who can I be?
Empathy for the criminal's childhood misery does not imply exoneration of the crimes he committed as an adult.
Misery makes strange bedfellows.
The Buddha is reported to have laid supreme em - phasis upon the pain and misery of human existence, and claimed to reveal how release could be obtained. SIN AND SALVATION
Don't let your life be a tape recorder of the misery of the past. You can do nothing about the past. RVM
In 1984, when I was taking care of the riot victims, I saw the same nameless fear and helpless misery.
Did he have an idea of the wild passion which burst forth from despair and misery?
There is only one end to an explosion in debt - an explosion in misery as families buckle under the weight of repayments.
Best of all, for those who have spent years of misery denying themselves the foods they love and existing on watery cabbage soup in a vain attempt to regain the shape they had as a teenager, it does seem to work.
He said that John and Andrew had sneaked out of camp and found some "applejack," which they consumed to give them some warmth and dull some of the misery of their condition. Tales from a Civil War Prison: Lieutenant William B. Hardy, Private John Hardy, and Private Andrew Hardy
The melancholy of the whole story, the pity of it, the one long sigh which Schlegel heard in it, is conveyed with an almost magic suddenness in this single touch; and yet one touch more, and that of priceless importance, the suggestion of the whole world of misery and disorder that may lie hidden as an awful possibility in the tempers and vanities of even two poor old heads of houses. Introduction
Finn and Larkins started to walk away from the bench that seated the 3 dispirited boys, all of whom were sighing with misery and woe.
Tens of millions around the globe see it, with justification, as an emblem of their oppression and misery.
In all fairness she is saving the children from a life of poverty and misery.
The thought occurs: maybe older people are happier because they are no longer living with mardy adolescents or midlife miserymongers. Times, Sunday Times
Coming to the London docks he was shocked at the misery and poverty of casual labour and organized a docker's union.
I get so into my characters that I can't find the strength to kill them off or let them live in misery.
The intelligentsia are as confused as before, and their main preoccupation is finding culprits abroad, such as the Elders of Zion and the Western imperialists, for the misery of their society. A Failure of Intelligence
When Hasan saw her in this state of torment and misery and ignominy and infamy, he wept till he fainted; and when he recovered he saw his children playing and their mother aswoon for excess of pain; so he took the cap from his head and the children saw him and cried out, “O our father!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Yet, at the same time, once our pets become seriously ill, we are ready to ease their suffering and provide a painless end to their misery.
A small exploitative class of intermediaries benefited enormously from the neocolonial relationship, but the masses were sunk in abject poverty and misery.
Yet who could tell how much misery any shadows of illegality might cast into the future? Wives and Daughters
The family lived in misery for several years.
One also should know one's own limitations… There is so much misery and darkness.
The mind struggles to comprehend the scale of all that human misery. The Sun
What we are witnessing here is human misery on a vast scale.
His constant criticism made her life a misery.
Within seconds, my mood had swung from joy to misery.
Poverty and misery have not imbued these characters with dignity but rather have made them covetous and begrudging.
However, Ken's motives for swapping the cold, often uncomfortable dugout for the comfort zone of the boardroom last year have nothing to do with making the manager's life a misery.
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery. Amy Tan
Thomson's denunciation of the slave trade, and of cruelty to animals, especially the caging of birds and the coursing of hares; his preference of country to town; his rhapsodies on domestic love and the innocence of the Golden Age; his contrast between the misery of the poor and the heartless luxury of the rich; all these features of the poem foretoken the sentimentalism of Sterne and Goldsmith, and the humanitarianism of A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
This could go some way to rid them of the ‘misery’ tag that they have been stuck with since the release of their debut album, The Optimist.
In short, oil has shriveled the promise and stained the soul of an entire country, empowering autocrats who disdain human rights and are oblivious to the misery of its people. Richard North Patterson discusses Eclipse
Why is it that so many of those whose political creed should be driven by a desire to emancipate those who are suffering choose to object to a course of action which would deliver millions from misery?
Why would a chemical substance as seemingly innocuous as milk sugar cause a body misery?
Results for the blackmailer, that is, but misery for everyone else. Gallup: Obama Leads Hillary Nationally By Three Points
But what about all those folk who write them off as joyless misery guts?
Without it, the eurozone economies will stumble from one temporary expedient to another, amid much human misery. Times, Sunday Times
Translation: my mum's various no-good boyfriends made my childhood a misery, so this time, I'm doing the picking.
She dreamed about a handsome young prince coming to rescue her from her misery.
There is as much misery riding and driving about in carriages as there is walking about on foot: there is as much unhappiness in ceiled houses as in humble cottages.

How To Use Misery In A Sentence

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