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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:
Cigarettes stimulate thought, distract from woe, and require playing with matches.
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!
woe, etcetera.
Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature's morbid grace, Oh, woe, woe, woe, etcetera.
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.
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