Example sentences for: woe

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

  • 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!

  • Cigarettes stimulate thought, distract from woe, and require playing with matches.

  • 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?"

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

  • And farewell, merry heart, the gift of guiltless minds,And all sports which for life's restore variety assigns.Let all that sweet is, void; in me no mirth may dwell:Philip, the cause of all this woe, my life's content, farewell!


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