For a few years more they were permitted to drag on a miserable existence.
How, then, could they be expected not to devote themselves to money-making, the sole means by which they were enabled to drag out a miserable existence?
True, the Germans had no occasion to envy Jews on account of the position and influence of Jewish magnates at royal courts, but they grudged them even their miserable existence in the Jews' lanes in which they were penned up.
A mother who is always, of her own accord, quacking her child with opening physic, is laying up for her unfortunate offspring a debilitated constitution--a miserable existence.
A poor girl, from such treatment, becomes either consumptive or broken down in constitution, and from which she never recovers, but drags on a miserable existence.
Thus they could only prolong a miserable existence in secret, and by the beginning of the sixth century every trace of them had disappeared.
The Copts were completely driven out of the cities, and even in the villages maintained only a miserable existence.
Our plans would have been frustrated, our exertions rendered of no avail; we should have dragged on a miserable existence; and long ere this, should have abandoned Thuggee, and our connection with its Hindoo professors.
After a time all the prisoners were permitted to live in Omdurman, where they eked out a miserable existence by begging; but hunger, disease, and all the sufferings they had undergone carried off hundreds.
Some poor sufferers eked out a miserable existence by living on the undigested food found in the excrement of animals; all sorts of leather, shoes and sandals, were boiled and eaten.
Thus we dragged out a miserable existence, devoid of hope, shunned by all, and suffering much from continual sickness.
He was helpless and friendless, and had the prospect, unalleviated, of dragging out a miserable existence, far from home, without a friend or pecuniary resource.
But if I fell, you would end a miserable existence, marred by the most bitter and painful memories.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miserable existence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
