Example sentences for: woe

How can you use “woe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Had Gore failed to secure this prize, the story would have been played as "more woe for the troubled Gore campaign" (or possibly, "last straw for troubled Gore campaign").

  • Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace, Oh, woe, woe, woe, etcetera.

  • Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!

  • Abraham Lincoln wrote the Second Inaugural Address knowing full well that his biblical tropes ("woe unto the world because of offenses!"

  • How did golf become a sport of woe and misery?


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