Woeful is an English word with synonyms like woebegone or sorrowful. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Woeful meaning
- Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
- Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
- Lamentable, deplorable.
Using Woeful
- The main meaning on this page is: Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. | Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. | Lamentable, deplorable.
- Useful related words include: woebegone, sorrowful, deplorable, execrable.
- In the example corpus, woeful often appears in combinations such as: the woeful, and woeful, their woeful.
Context around Woeful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Woeful
- In this selection, "woeful" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, similarly, performance, start and form stand out and add context to how "woeful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after a woeful performance in and against a woeful panthers offense. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "woeful" sits close to words such as abbotsford, abreast and adkins, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with woeful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Reacts Survey: Will Texas avoid a woeful performance in Waco? (10 words)
In Week 16 they beat the woeful Jets 19-9. (10 words)
Few could genuinely argue anything but that given their woeful record. (11 words)
Conceding a woeful 19 in the last 10, the move to a back three has not provided the solidity at the back that many fans hoped for, with the system earning just one clean sheet (in that rare good day out at home to Everton). (45 words)
All things considered, I believe the Broncos’ offense continues to dominate in the run game and Vance Joseph’s defense performs well against a woeful Panthers offense that struggles to put points on the board. (35 words)
As Aussies across the country tuned in for the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, many were left unimpressed, taking to social media to slam Karl Stefanovic’s coverage of the major event as “dull” and “woeful”. (35 words)
Reacts Survey: Will Texas avoid a woeful performance in Waco? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
The woeful performance of the Women’s Under-20 team cannot be dissociated from the woeful performance of ALL our other national teams ver the past two years or so.
AC Milan's woeful start to the year has gone from bad to worse, potentially putting title-winning coach Stefano Pioli's job at risk.
A Pew Research Center released this week found Biden’s approval rating falling to a woeful 33% — in part because of waning support from his own party’s base.
Certainly, his best has been so woeful in that for many, life was “short, nasty, and brutish” in 2022.
Chelsea are in woeful form and Graham Potter's job is coming under threat.
Joe Burrow and the Bengals face the Baltimore Ravens at home on Sunday after a woeful performance in a 24-3 loss at Cleveland.
Raab was found to have described the work of officials as “utterly useless” and “woeful” while he was justice secretary.
Reacts Survey: Will Texas avoid a woeful performance in Waco?
The past-his-prime guard shot a woeful 2-for-14 from the floor and 0-for-6 from beyond the arc with eight of his 12 points coming at the free-throw line.
There's people who come up to me who are living in woeful sin.
The snarky and photogenic Rocket got the prime "Weekend Update" slot and many of that woeful season’s sketches were built around his supposed leading man charisma.
The U’s were similarly woeful as they were beaten by the same score at Burton Albion.
All things considered, I believe the Broncos’ offense continues to dominate in the run game and Vance Joseph’s defense performs well against a woeful Panthers offense that struggles to put points on the board.
As Aussies across the country tuned in for the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, many were left unimpressed, taking to social media to slam Karl Stefanovic’s coverage of the major event as “dull” and “woeful”.
As House Republicans release a woeful anti-Biden impeachment report, it’s clear that the party has failed on multiple levels.
Conceding a woeful 19 in the last 10, the move to a back three has not provided the solidity at the back that many fans hoped for, with the system earning just one clean sheet (in that rare good day out at home to Everton).
Few could genuinely argue anything but that given their woeful record.
For over two millennia, we Jews have suffered a long and woeful history of oppression, expulsion, and murder.
Instead of making Jersey pay for the MTA’s woeful mismanagement, New Yorkers can pay for New York’s MTA problem,” Gottheimer said in his remarks on Thursday.
In Week 16 they beat the woeful Jets 19-9.
Common combinations with woeful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the woeful 9×
- and woeful 8×
- their woeful 6×
- woeful performance 5×
- woeful in 4×
- in woeful 4×
- woeful form 4×
- after woeful 3×
- woeful record 3×
- his woeful 3×