Sentence examples for were in misery from inspiring English sources

"We were in misery," said Francisco Martinez, a Haitian whose parents were from the Dominican Republic.

Although we were safe, we were in misery for a week as we dealt with no power, no running water, no phone service and a plethora of downed trees.

But, though we were in misery over what was happening, there was not one of us, gasping for breath and choking on rain, who wasn't somehow secretly proud that the Colonel's inspired whim was testing our endurance to the breaking point.

"I'm in misery," she said.

But mostly I was in misery.

About to move from Lodz to Juventus of Turin, Boniek was in misery as the Polish team lost to Italy.

Herzog contributed to this caricature with campy pronouncements: standing in a sun-dappled, twittering Peruvian glade, he declares, "The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery.

Djokovic will be in misery if he doesn't win the tournament, so he'll do whatever it takes".

The boy "was in misery" and appeared to be crying, and an adult could be seen nearby, she said in an interview last week.

But at the same time, millions are in misery, both in cities and villages, with no hope for a better future.

("Dante's Virgil was wrong," he thinks, "to tell him that there is no greater sorrow than to remember past happy times when one is in misery. Memory is a solace").