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Example sentences for: woe
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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?