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Example sentences for: woe

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

oy not so much a word as an entire vocabulary, as Rosten observes: “can express any emotion, from trivial delight to the blackest woe.”
That it wasn't easy is suggested by the jealousies that bordered their arrangements: Woe betide anyone (with the possible exception of Louis Howe) who tried to befriend Eleanor and Franklin equally.
Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace, Oh, woe, woe, woe, etcetera.
O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already.
Abraham Lincoln wrote the Second Inaugural Address knowing full well that his biblical tropes ("woe unto the world because of offenses!"