Examples of 'woe' in a sentence

Meaning of "woe"

Woe is a feeling of deep distress or suffering. It is often used in literature or poetry to convey a sense of grief or despair
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  • Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
  • Calamity, trouble.
  • A curse; a malediction.
  • Woeful; sorrowful

How to use "woe" in a sentence

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Woe unto my people who have sinned.
These times of woe afford no time to woo.
Woe to the people still sreaming in bed.
More full of woe than us old ones.
Woe to anyone who mentions that night.
The people love woe to strong men.
Woe to the faithless for a severe punishment.
Too much booze and marital woe.
If aught of woe or wonder cease your search.
I pray your journey does not end in woe.
Woe to the makers of the pit of fire.
Through me the way to the city of woe.
Woe to the unbelievers for a terrible punishment.
Spare this unhappy prince greater woe.
Woe to anyone who does not believe in miracles.

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Please proceed with your tale of woe.
Woe to the poor lover consumed by jealousy.
Beneath grim stars in the valley of woe.
Woe to the unlucky one who succumbs.
You pass into the city of woe.
Woe to those who die in mortal sin.
Will be the day of woe for those.
Woe betide if we gave them any excuse.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe.
Woe to anyone who did not laugh properly.
No mortal flame can destroy common woe.
Woe to the eyes that see this.
I am the way into the city of woe.
And woe to him who does not recognize it.
For never was there a story of more woe.
I am afraid woe and me are one in the same.
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Woe betide them if my boots doorzeefd have.
Thou shalt remain in midst of other woe.
Woe to you for what you utter.
Save us from peril and from woe.
Woe to them who die in mortal sin.
For the which with songs of woe.
Woe to those who push their luck.
Beneath dim stars in the valley of woe.
And woe to those who try to stop me.
Compare dead happiness with living woe.
Woe to the lady whose husband is a fool.
I am stuck in here listening to his tale of woe.
Woe betide you if you were caught asleep.
No client wants to hear your tale of woe.
Woe be to you and three times woe.
Into our tale of heartbreak and woe.
Woe to the world if he touches the ground.
We said we will share weal and woe.

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