Sentence examples for miserable condition from inspiring English sources

Finally, says Polybius, Hannibal "succeeded in getting his elephants across, but the animals were in a miserable condition from hunger".

That is as long as it took Argentina to fall from its former glory as one of the world's wealthiest economies to its current, miserable condition.

Moved by the miserable condition of the lepers, whom the Hawaiian government deported to Kalaupapa on Molokai Island (1873), he volunteered to take charge of the settlement.

His novel Kain no matsuei (1917; Descendants of Cain), dealing with the miserable condition of tenant farmers in Hokkaido, brought his first fame.

"The most difficult part is coming back and finding your house, your fields in miserable condition, and you have to re-create your life out of nothing".

The miserable condition of adult homes for the mentally ill raises the most fundamental question: How could a system so broken remain in place for so long?

Misery is everywhere, as in miserable conditions, as in hardship.

Swirling winds and frigid temperatures created miserable conditions.

Hundreds of thousands are living in miserable conditions.

People were living in miserable conditions, but we had hope".

The Company employees, many of them poor, operated in miserable conditions.