Example sentences for: woe

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

  • One more thing before we get to our tale of rabbinical woe: the winning answer to the recent contest question "How much Turtle Wax comprises a year's supply of Turtle Wax?"

  • But first, the Shopping Avenger would like to tell his own tale of consumer woe.

  • no indignation, no passion for justice, only woe, woe, woe, as he felt himself falling,

  • 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!

  • Instead, she bequeathed us this charming insight into the youthful exuberance of the patriarch of psychoanalysis, written in 1884: “Woe to you, my Princess, when I come.


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