miseries
Example Sentences
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But it also quite consciously plays to the baser side of us that takes cold comfort, even joy, at the miseries of the hyperwealthy.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
No wonder mud became “shorthand for the miseries of poverty,” Ms. Ziegelman writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
The manuscript that shared her story with the world quoted her as promising to “hear all their cries ... and remedy all their miseries, sorrows, and pains.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
“You cannot blame British newspapers for the miseries heaped on the Prince and Princess of Wales,” columnist Hugo Rifkind wrote in The Times of London.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2024
I was staring at my mother’s private miseries, and it made me want to go outside and bury the book in the dirt.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
