Sentence examples for but miserably from inspiring English sources

As a result, for all but a few exceptional years during Adams's long public career, he and Abigail lived dutifully but miserably apart.

(Her advice: come in April or May, when rains wash out the haze, or in the fall, but not in the summer when the air is clear but miserably hot).

Instead, she's delivered a lively, well-researched chronicle of the social and scientific forces that brought midlife America to its current befuddled state — better off by most measures than any previous generation, but miserably out of fashion.

A dealer put the police onto them, and she was arrested in the fall of 1964, which forced Cornell, gallantly but miserably, to spend his time trying to keep her safe from the police and prosecutors.

These horrid little 10-year-olds had been admitted to No 10 to pester Tony Blair with faux-naif questions such as, "If you make an ugly smell, do people pretend not to notice because you is the prime minister?" and "Are you jealous of the Queen?" Blair suffered this long humiliation manfully but miserably, and afterwards tried to explain to his puzzled American visitor why he had agreed to it.

He tried to man up, but failed miserably.

"I actually rehearsed for two weeks trying to perfect my twerk, but failed miserably.

It made its bid for independence in the 1950s but failed miserably.

Especially the Russians, who were co-favorites with Canada but failed miserably in Vancouver.

Nigeria, like much of Africa, ought to be rich but is miserably poor.

"I actually rehearsed for two weeks trying to perfect my twerk, but failed miserably," she said.