8 sentences with 'misery'
Example sentences and phrases with the word misery and other words derived from it.
• « Cities were also especially vulnerable to epidemics, adding to the misery of urban life for the poor. »
• « The root cause of this misery was simple: the ruthless pursuit of profit by factory owners and manufacturers. »
• « Although they had little reason to consider it, industrial workers in the north of England lived in a state of misery that was linked to an even worse one on the other side of the Atlantic: the slave-based cotton economy of the American South that provided the raw material. »
• « The infernal mills, the starving workers, and the misery and distress of the factory towns were all part of 19th century European capitalism. Whatever could contain those factors, mainly in the form of concessions to workers and state intervention in the economy, had not happened on a large scale when Marx was writing - trade unions themselves were banned in most states until the middle of the century. »
• « Amidst the misery of working-class life, or in terms of rising rates of drug use and alcoholism, many people came to fear that certain destructive traits were not only flourishing in Europe, but were being transmitted. »
• « Thus, the experience of war in the trenches for the next three years was a state of continuous misery: men stood in the mud, sometimes more than a foot deep, in the cold and rain, while shells whistled over them and occasionally blew them over. »
• « While merchants in London, Bristol and Liverpool lined their pockets, the Africans trafficked by the company endured a nightmare of misery, deprivation and uprooting. »