Wondering how to use Woe in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as suffering or misery.
Woe in a sentence
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Woe meaning
- Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
- Calamity, trouble.
- A curse; a malediction.
Synonyms of Woe
Using Woe
- The main meaning on this page is: Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. | Calamity, trouble. | A curse; a malediction.
- Useful related words include: suffering, misery, wretchedness, miserableness.
- In the example corpus, woe often appears in combinations such as: of woe, woe to, woe is.
Context around Woe
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 1 questions, 3 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Woe
- In this selection, "woe" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, suburban, travel, betide, castagnoli and lost stand out and add context to how "woe" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include tree of woe and then and adding more woe to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "woe" sits close to words such as aficionados, aiadmk and airships, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with woe
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He never played the “woe is me” card. (8 words)
However, woe is me, I didn't have a sundress. (10 words)
Woe betide a nation should this vision come to power! (10 words)
A strong fishing community remains, as can be appreciated when one wakes up early enough to see the colorful boats head out (and woe to the marketgoer who misses out on today’s catch because they slept in—and by marketgoer, I mean me). (44 words)
To emphasize the woe that droids experience in this franchise would undoubtedly capsize both of those objectives, especially since it would end up casting the actions of heroes like Luke Skywalker in a darker light. (35 words)
Clearly Alec and Hilaria think that if we all just see who they are, hear their tale of woe over and over, that we’ll feel sorry for them. (29 words)
The fact is, if he talked it up and went into 'woe-is-me' mode, would there be any point turning up? (22 words)
Rush clawing at Penta’s mask in the Tree of Woe, Castagnoli military presses Rey over the ropes but he does not fall to the floor! (26 words)
The “hand-wringing” and “woe is me” people support and scream about gun tragedies but yet there are some 10K+ killed on the nations roadways due to auto crashes! (29 words)
Woe betide a nation should this vision come to power! (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
Adding more woe to the indignity of inter-Africa travel we already suffer, EU countries are continuously militarizing their borders to keep African immigrants and refugees out.
Clearly Alec and Hilaria think that if we all just see who they are, hear their tale of woe over and over, that we’ll feel sorry for them.
He never played the “woe is me” card.
However, woe is me, I didn't have a sundress.
Hunter Biden showed he has his father’s chutzpah Wednesday when he blew off a congressional subpoena to hold a woe-is-me press conference on Capitol Hill.
It also has a unique weapon skill "Siluria's Woe", which is a chargeable attack that performs a thrust after creating a wind vortex around the weapon.
It was the grimy, dead-souled antithesis to John Hughes' peppy tales of suburban woe.
Quite an achievement and let’s not forget – back by state & federal ‘Labor’ every foul step of the way, from go to woe.
Rush clawing at Penta’s mask in the Tree of Woe, Castagnoli military presses Rey over the ropes but he does not fall to the floor!
The fact is, if he talked it up and went into 'woe-is-me' mode, would there be any point turning up?
The “hand-wringing” and “woe is me” people support and scream about gun tragedies but yet there are some 10K+ killed on the nations roadways due to auto crashes!
To emphasize the woe that droids experience in this franchise would undoubtedly capsize both of those objectives, especially since it would end up casting the actions of heroes like Luke Skywalker in a darker light.
Woe betide a nation should this vision come to power!
Woe betide anyone who wants to be a dentist, physical therapist or otherwise enroll in any other professional master’s program.
Again, Mandy stressed that this is not a "woe is me" moment, she just needed to vent her annoyance and frustration with the whole ordeal.
As holidaymakers flock to sunny destinations this year, new data sheds light on an often-overlooked travel woe - lost items at the airport.
A strong fishing community remains, as can be appreciated when one wakes up early enough to see the colorful boats head out (and woe to the marketgoer who misses out on today’s catch because they slept in—and by marketgoer, I mean me).
But, drivers have been warned a "weekend of woe" awaits, as the RAC estimates around 13.8million people will hit the road from Friday to Sunday.
Choo clotheslines Jordan so she’s hanging back on the apron in a tree of woe, and then Choo charges in with a dropkick.
Choo put Threat in the Tree of Woe and then hit her with a Shotgun Dropkick.
Common combinations with woe
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of woe 23×
- woe to 9×
- woe is 8×
- and woe 6×
- woe betide 6×
- woe and 6×
- the woe 5×
- woe for 4×
- more woe 3×
- woe as 3×