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How to use woo in a sentence

31 example sentences · verb

Woo means to endeavor to gain someone's affection or support. Example: “They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.”

Examples of woo by meaning

verbTo endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.

  • They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.
  • Behind this carefully crafted strategy of wooing Trump is a desire from Gulf states to solidify and formalize their positions as the US’ indispensable security and economic partners, and extract as much benefit for themselves as they can.2025 May 11, Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, “Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish...

More sentences with woo

  • There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.From the entry fair
  • A man giving a gift of roses is wooing a woman.From the entry wooing
  • The chocolatier's gorgeous creations wooed the surrounding neighbourhood.From the entry chocolatier
  • "Woo hoo!" yelled Sue and David. "It's the weekend!"From the entry woo hoo
  • Also, it seems to me that if a woman wooed you, you could marry her.2014, David Blixt, The Prince's Doom, Sordelet Ink, →ISBN. From the entry chasmous
  • For decades American politicians have assumed that mass incarceration works, wooing voters with ever-tougher sentencing laws.2013 August 17, “One nation, behind bars”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849. From the entry decades
  • Serenades pitch woo or pitch for whatever entitlement the serenader is looking for.2007 February 8, Bernard Holland, “What Do You Play in the Evening? Serenades. Moonlight Becomes Them.”, in New York Times. From the entry serenader
  • Billy and the rest were wooed through gate after gate, and Billy saw his first Russian.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 71. From the entry ragbag
  • A woo session on a public scale can leave everybody feeling pretty cheap, thinking back on it.1953, Farm Journal - Volume 77, page 138. From the entry partyful
  • In that book story, the lady bewhacked the woo person playsomely on the arm with her fan.1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib. From the entry beflirt
  • The strike will win few friends as the capital tries to woo commuters and shoppers back after the pandemic.2022 March 23, Paul Clifton, “Londoners pay the price”, in RAIL, number 953, page 49. From the entry self-defeating
  • For three days Emmanuel Macron was wooed and fêted by Donald Trump, treated to marching bands and banquets.2018 April 27, William Cook, “Are Macron and Merkel playing good cop, bad cop with Trump?”, in The Spectator. From the entry fete
  • McComb, chief executive of Liz Claiborne, whose efforts to revive flagging sales hinge upon his company’s aggressive wooing of Mr.2008 March 8, Eric Wilson, “Big Names in Retail Fashion Are Trading Teams”, in New York Times. From the entry dislodgment
  • McPedro the cactus: How to woo a woman!2007, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots: 267. From the entry trite
  • I had no idea then how boys wooed girls.2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women”, in New Yorker. From the entry sock hop
  • These include woo woos, kamikazes and shots of any kind.2000 May 7, Julia Chaplin, “Buzz Off: Secret Bars That Spurn Hype”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 May 2025. From the entry kamikaze
  • Psychoanalysts wooed me with pseudoliberations of pseudolibidoes.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC. From the entry pseudoliberation
  • Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.1953, Ian Fleming, “Rouge et Noir”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 48. From the entry ravage
  • So am I happy, beyond all other men, Howaji, for that my woo with X-tiana begins to success itself.1925, Albert Payson Terhune, Najib. From the entry bewhack
  • His wooing had been brief but incisive.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC. From the entry say
  • The jackets retain the crammable pockets and snag resistance that have wooed woodsy types since the 19th century, but with his hodgepodge patchwork Mr.2018 March 8, Jacob Gallagher, “This Is Not Your Father's (or Your Farmer's) Carhartt Jacket”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from…. From the entry crammable
  • He's hysterical and disturbing as an ubernerdy chemistry professor who woos student Stella Stevens by concocting a potion that transforms him into a suave stud.2004, TV Guide, volume 52, page 26. From the entry ubernerdy
  • All in favor of pre-empting MST3K last weekend for a Tom Hanks special (all his old SNL's, woo! :P ), say 'Aye'.1995 July 10, Dennis Taylor, “Who the hell is this Tom Hanks guy, anyways?”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k (Usenet), archived from the original on…. From the entry two Abe Lincolns
  • Since Martin — the music salesman — is obsessed with being a lover, naturally he would find a homely school teacher to woo.1982 February 11, David Jacob, “Martin shines in latest film”, in The Hanford Sentinel, Hanford, Calif., page 3-B, column 1. From the entry Betty-Boopish
  • Leaving the field of war for that of love, I asked about their marriage customs - how daughters of the desert were wooed and won.1902, Henry M. Field, On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, page 72. From the entry daughter of the desert
  • The L-shaped shopping parade, which had once wooed custom away from the small shops down the hill, was on the slide, left stranded by changes in consumer habits.2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian. From the entry on the slide
  • I'm not trying to defend house finches—I'm wooed by goldies' looks like every other feeder—and I certainly think that house finches eat far more seed than they deserve.2014, Bill Adler, Outwitting Squirrels, page 34. From the entry goldie
  • He had pored over the websites of the different European car manufacturers, wooed at first by the Beemers, Audis and Saabs before admitting we had a restricted budget.2007, Katrina Blowers, “French Women Must Get Fat”, in Mary Trewby, editor, Tuning Out: My Quarter-life Crisis, Millers Point, N.S.W.…. From the entry zippy
  • So keen are politicos to woo Mumsnetters that Gordon Brown did an online chat with the site a short while ago, and David Cameron is due to follow suit tomorrow.2009 November 18, Helen Pidd, “Queen's Speech gets the Mumsnet treatment”, in The Guardian. From the entry Mumsnetter

Meaning of woo

  1. verb To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.
  2. verb Often of a man, to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with.
  3. verb To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love.

Full definition of woo

Questions about woo in a sentence

How do you use woo in a sentence?
Woo is used as a verb. For example: “They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.”
What is a short sentence with woo?
“His wooing had been brief but incisive.”
What does woo mean?
Woo means to endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woo (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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