Example sentences for: wooing

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

  • He also failed to soften his positions on Taiwan, Tibet, and human rights, which might have been one way of wooing Western governments.

  • In the film--as in life--Brandon (who never used the last name Teena; he was called "Brandon Teena" only posthumously) had already been wooing young women as a man in his hometown of Lincoln before arriving in Falls City (population 5,000) in late 1993.

  • In wooing German voters, the Nazis did tone down their anti-Semitism, emphasizing instead their nationalist and anti-Bolshevik credentials.

  • In wooing Katherine, the French princess whose country and relatives he has just laid waste to, Henry, having never met the girl, calls her an angel and claims to be in love with her.

  • Masterminded by Sergei Korolev, the Soviet counterpart to the United States' Wernher von Braun (and, unlike von Braun, a native product), Sputnik seemed to represent a system superior to capitalism, and proved useful in wooing developing nations that had yet to choose sides in the Cold War.


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