How to use woe in a sentence

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• Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.From the entry seep
• Woe betide you if you try that with my sister again!From the entry woe betide
• Woe is me, for I am utterly undone!From the entry undone
• A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.From the entry panacea
• Woe worth the man that crosses me.From the entry worth
• She was untouched by his tale of woes.From the entry untouched
• Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3. From the entry patchy
• New families are frightened of natural threats more than the old woes: Christian daycares, arsenicked Snickers.2017, JoAnna Novak, I Must Have You. From the entry arsenicked
• “Don't blame me;” I told them, “for all your troublements and woes: blame the island!'2013, Avram Davidson, The Island Under the Earth. From the entry troublement
• Oh the woes and begoes of mankind,” smiled the good lord.2011, Loretto Gubernatis, Dimitrius and the Gladiolas. From the entry bego
• Woe betide the foolish wretch that sayeth he hath the power to bestow this jigglesome blessing.2000 July 9, Clovis Lark <clark@steel.ucs.indiana.edu>, “Re: Tithing is sometimes forced in the Mormon Church!”, in alt.religion.mormon…. From the entry jigglesome
• Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.1980 May 10, Al King, “Braves travel to New England with reputation”, in The Indiana Gazette. From the entry number
• T” ungrieve its woes this world hath long endeavored, When may love's heart cease to mourn?1969, Alexander's Magazine - Volumes 4-5, page 155. From the entry ungrieve
• This mournful melody from Queensland tells of the woes and misfortunes of early canecutters.1964, Favourite Australian Bush Songs, page 137. From the entry canecutter
• Filthiness is in their skirts (Lamentations I) and woe behelp them at the second coming.1961, John Reeves, A beach of strangers: an excursion. From the entry behelp
• N. finally has agreed on a man to take over Trygve Lie’s title and woes.1953 April 12, A[braham] M[ichael] Rosenthal, “Farewell, Diplomacy: Trygve Lie’s daughter Guri tells about staying here”, in The New York…. From the entry lie
• When he himself has stubbed a toe, The other overwells with woe.1946, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, Poems for a Son with Wings, page 86. From the entry overwell
• The woes of the world call forth the loudest outcries from the bystanders.1932, Francis John McConnell, Aids to Christian Belief, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Oh.; Chicago, Ill.: The Abingdon Press, page 108. From the entry bystanding
• Listen to my tale of woe, It's terribly sad but true.1924 December 1, the musical "Lady, Be Good!," premiered on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre; music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira…. From the entry all dressed up and nowhere to go
• "I can't speak from experience, for my woes are not generally weepable."1907, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, volume 79, page 8. From the entry weepable
• But "woe to the people whose liberty depends on the continued forbearance of an overmighty protector."1900, Edward Shepherd Creaby, Decisive Battles of the World, P. F. Collier & Sons, page 293. From the entry overmighty
• Hecuba has no such musical or aesthetic consolation, since all that remains for her is to “cry out chorusless woes.”2017, Naomi A. Weiss, The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater, →ISBN. From the entry chorusless
• But this is not a typical tale of monster-in-law woes.2011 April 22, Anna Maxted, “Why I love my mother-in-law”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry monster-in-law
• Mr Quirk wanted refreshments." We passed the Mint Milanos around the conference table and told our tales of woe.2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.35. From the entry tale of woe
• And woe betide the peasant who protested!2005, E[rnst] H[ans] Gombrich, “A Very Violent Revolution”, in Caroline Mustill, transl., A Little History of the World, New Haven, Conn.…. From the entry woe betide
• Woe to the European who dared approach the equinoctal line!2004, Ángela Pérez Mejía, A geography of hard times: narratives about travel to South America, 1780-1849, page 129. From the entry equinoctal
• The cause of the Somali woes is not secularism.1998 November 1, Abdiwali M Ahmed, “Would it be a sin...”, in soc.culture.somalia (Usenet). From the entry somalism
• Woe betide the camera-shy or the fluffers of lines.1993, Design, numbers 533-539, page 38. From the entry fluffer
• Woe is me, woe . . .1991, Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Walter [Werner] Arndt, New World Avenue and Vicinity, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux…. From the entry plumpitude
• A little piece of black drapery had been tacked above the frame to lend a dignity to woe.1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 7, third paragraph. From the entry dignity
• Let’s pray that G‑d sends us Moshiach already, so we can stop waxing eloquent about our woes and expand our vocabulary of positive interjections!2025 December 18 (last accessed), “What Does “Oy Vey” Mean?”, in Chabad.org, archived from the original on 13 May 2025. From the entry g-d
• "The more violently secesh and the more thankful they are for Lincoln's death, the more profusely the houses are decorated with emblems of woe."2015, Kathryn Canavan, Lincoln's Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President, University Press…. From the entry secesh
• The disc is Arden's first collection of original material since sorting out business woes that resulted in the dissolvement of her management company.2009 October 4, Ashante Infantry, “Free to do her thing”, in Toronto Star. From the entry dissolvement
• Where the widow wails, in her nameless woe, And the soldiers pace, with the sword and gun, Where the comrade sleeps, with the laureled brow.1993, James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley, →ISBN, page 396. From the entry laureled
• They're not going to play the patsy where they carry the can for all the woes caused by a tanking in oil prices that's already happened.2015 June 17, Rick Bell, “Alberta NDP government chooses not to kick province's oil industry when it's down”, in Calgary Sun, Canada…. From the entry carry the can
• The prank escalates from there, with McGraw explaining his vision woes by saying, "I knew I had a problem because I woke up and my wife had four bazoombas.2015 March 12, Andrew Leahey, quoting Tim McGraw, “Watch Tim McGraw Talk Bats, 'Bazoombas' on 'Repeat After Me'”, in Rolling Stone, New…. From the entry bazoomba
• Woe to those who act fraudulently, who exact their full measure when in receipt from others, yet give short measure when they reckon out or weigh out for others.2012, Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart Schaar, The Middle East and Islamic World Reader. From the entry reckon out
• 'Woe unto you; woe unto you,' and His own lips quivered and His own heart felt the woe, as He laid bare the sin and foreannounced the retribution.2004, Alexander MacLaren, Expositions Of Holy Scripture St. Matthew - Page 100. From the entry foreannounce
• We may flame each other out every couple of weeks, but woe to anyone who steals our angstfic and puts FRAN DRESCHER in the Scully role!1999 February 6, Kipler, “Re: Unscrupulous Folks Afoot”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet). From the entry angstfic

Meaning of woe

1. noun Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
2. noun Calamity, trouble.
3. noun A curse; a malediction.

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Questions about woe in a sentence

How do you use woe in a sentence?

Woe is used as a noun, adjective and interjection. For example: “Oh, woe is me!”

What is a short sentence with woe?

“Oh, woe is me!”

What does woe mean?

Woe means great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.