Who would give three straws for such a miserable little thing?

There, before the others, she told me what miserable things the four of us was.

That had been such a miserable thing to do to those boys.

We have to do this whole miserable thing over again tomorrow, starting at sunrise.

Will one of you tell me how a miserable thing like this was ever allowed to happen in the first place?

It seemed such a miserable thing for him to be doing.

You have to be old enough to remember how thoroughly miserable things were under the Soviet regime.

In fact, it's a pretty miserable thing to have to admit.

And I don't even have the miserable thing any more.

Not after all the hours we spent on the miserable thing yesterday.