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Sentence Examples I've never met him, but I'd love to inflict some of the woe he's put upon her onto his cowardly little mind. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Yet woe to those who are silent about you because, though loquacious with verbosity, they have nothing to say. But woe betide me if something I want to watch coincides with something she wants to watch. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. It's a downtrodden tale full of woe and misfortune, a portrait of loneliness and bleakness. If you say you're coming for lunch at 1 then the dinner will be on the table at 1 and woe betide you if you are late. All kanji have a set number of strokes and an order in which to write them, and woe betide you if you get either wrong. Just spoke to J. She's now heading out to get completely trollied and woe betide the first male to try it on with her tonight. So he'd helped his miserable friend console his woe begotten soul with some more hard liquor until he'd passed out. It can't be any worse than any of the tales of mirth and woe I've got lined up. At the end of his dive, woe betide any luckless invertebrate in the path of his trawl net. Oh, yes, we thought it fair game to try and steal other people wood but woe betide anyone who tried to pilfer ours. And if someone is incapacitated and unable to make decisions for themselves, woe betide another person who might make a wrong decision for them. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! Parents drive their children to cram up for examinations and woe forbid, if the child is a prodigy. Scandal, woe and calumny struck the otherwise genteel junior school carol concert last night. But woe betide the people when they have the effrontery to take a stand on higher principles. Sister Madalena was headmistress and woe betide at Monday assembly if you hadn't been to Mass on Sunday. If they go blitz-wacky against first-rate teams in the playoffs, woe may betide. Show More Sentences A most meticulous man, his toolbox was his pride and joy and woe betide anyone who didn't put a tool back exactly where they got it! The most marvelous tales of weeping and woe are preached in poetic extreme. The Bishop came to test us on our knowledge and woe betide the boy who failed to give an instant answer to his theological queries. A small group of rituals known as maledictions can visit misfortune and woe upon the target of one's ire. As the evening progressed, the accordion player moved on from more traditional tales of woe to sing the theme tune from Love Story in Finnish. She told a tale of woe that involved her ex-boyfriend Kevin using guilt to convince her to lend him her car. Daisy, as we called the goat, would hate to be separated from her lambs and it was woe betide any dog that came near them. You'll cack yourself when, after each tale of woe, he turns to the camera with a quizzical face and asks, What the? This enabled them to fashion the policies of the state in a manner that the woe and weal of the common man is addressed. We are not invited to admire or condemn, only to experience the humanity of a woman making a choice, for weal or woe. National identity means a willingness to build the nation, which evolves from collective recognition of the need to share weal and woe. Again, last week saw tears of joy and tears of woe as the GCSE results came out. In the car he demands Elvis on the CD player and woe betide us we don't jump to it at once. This is a woe I suffer from like no other, and cannot wait to be rid of it forever. It seems now that the short remainder of my life will offer me little respite from woe and anguish. Striker Colin Alcide will be out of action for up to six weeks piling on the injury woe for York City manager Neil Thompson. Bogey woe on the final day cost North Yorkshire's king of swing Simon Dyson dear in the Dubai Desert Classic. And to compound the woe, his father Thomas lost his battle with lung cancer. What noun sums up the inescapable bore who buttonholes you to make a pitch or unload on you an interminable tale of woe? And his Wentworth woe was the fourth time this year he had gone agonisingly close. Show More Sentences Only, and here comes the woe, dear reader, I did it all in the wrong order. Here, I seized what I thought was the opportunity to turn the subject away from catastrophe, horror, vileness and woe. A dancing cosmos and a waffle iron tells of a slight decrease in your woe. We listened to his familiar tale of woe as he talked again about the failure of his marriage. But woe betide Town Council officialdom if there is another broken promise in respect of putting this bandstand into a decent and acceptable state of repair. We may have enlisted a Spaniard to build our parliament and a German to run our soccer team, but woe betide anyone who meddles with the water of life. Even the judiciary adds to the woe by convicting the women for soliciting. The midfielder is not exactly carrying a torch for his old manager but, for all the woe in his time in Scotland, he says he was a fan and still is. Yet woe betide the man who cops out and decides to skip Valentine's Day. At another Hotel in Dobrich we were given little slips of paper and woe betide you if you tried to get breakfast without them, not even sight of your room key was enough. And woe betide you if, like me, you stumble or hesitate over your order. I immediately warmed to him, and told him my tale of woe, refraining from going into too much detail and being careful not to bring Captain Haddock into it. But for some semblance of camaraderie, lend an ear to their tales of woe. We hate tall poppies, but woe betide the All Blacks when they lose. Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Kingbird, and Goldfinch are locked in an twisted triangle of territoriality, and woe betide the bird that stumbles into this gang war. As if the many other problems besetting agriculture at the present time were not enough, the weather is now heaping further woe on those who earn a living off the land. Too much updating may be the tragic flaw here, as lines of dialogue clearly meant to signal fatalistic woe are delivered in knowing, modern tones that undermine the drama. Well, I'm still scared, but woe betide if I dare admit it out loud. Armed with an exact list of what is to be bought, off we set, and woe betide the person who wanders in front of us as Mistress P beats a direct path to the chosen store. Rats, hundreds and hundreds of them, are everywhere at the Karni Mata Hindu temple in the Indian state of Rajasthan and woe betide anyone who takes fright and steps on one. Show More Sentences As the Blizzard of 2014 moves out to sea, it's left a wake of wintery woe behind. Doing that can be great for shooting the breeze and comparing tales of woe, but isn't always a recipe for creating any radical change. Among them will be bodice ripper Lady Audley's Secret by Mrs Braddon and cautionary tale of woe East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood. Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice? All her previous attempts to woe Varus have failed but her new magic will be successful, since the boy's organs will give her magic potency. We slouch and bellow, reminding in prayers our deathless woe And foredamn ourselves more by the ignorance of what we could not know. His memoir is not the typical tell-all with tales of woe and abuse. No sigh to rise, no tear had pow'r to flow, Fix'd in a stupid lethargy of woe. Thus am I wrapped And in woe umbelapped, Such love hath me trapped, Without any cure. Like generations of sad adolescents I loved the Mancunian miserabilists with their songs of woe. Filthiness is in their skirts and woe behelp them at the second coming. Alleluia. 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! Listen to my tale of woe, It's terribly sad but true. All dressed up, no place to go, Each evening I'm awfully blue. Nubia has a shy foreign accent, Jonathan's father sounds old and wise, Caudex the servant sounds old and sleepy, and the grieving father is mad with woe. What an amount of sin and woe might and would then be extinguished. The preciousest gift that a man hath of God in this world is the true heart of his wife, to abide by him in wealth and woe, and to bear all fortunes with him. To add to the tale of woe, newcomers Summiteer and Magherabrack lost so much ground when the gates opened that they might as well have stayed at home. Woe to the poor beggar upon whom he sees, or thinks he sees, spots or blemishes. Woe betide any jacked up little country that decides it should pursue its own people's interests. Woe betide he who would hurt our loved ones, isn't that the way we all feel? Show More Sentences Woe betide, though, anyone who is foolhardy enough not to go through the process. Woe unto the politicians and parties that fail to grok this, as they will face only bigger and bigger losses in market share. Woe betide the mother who has been forced into to having a sense of humor about disciplining her child, for she will bear no more offspring, but maybe get a dog instead. Created with a rear-screen optical printer and mattes cut out of construction paper, A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe has a rough, ecstatic collage quality. In a grotto below an ancient church lies the tomb of Alexander Griboyedov, the author of Woe from Wit and the inventor of the original angry young man, the unhappy Chatsky. Woe to the promotion manager who doesn't ace the Christmas blowout. Woe to you who have fallen away from the righteousness of your ancestors! Woe unto the central banker who diversified in that direction too quickly. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. Woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance to coup! Woe is the soul who trudges though the shallow, sometimes-toxic waters of New York's gay scene in an attempt to make it into that exclusive club known as the A-list. Examples from Classical Literature Get out of these trappings of woe, and tell us if you ever saw a windier, grayer, meaner day in all your lives. Woe to him who strikes a Brahmana, more woe to him who flies at his aggressor! An atom of thy creation, wildered in the mazes of ignorance and woe, would bow to thy decrees. It was the very wantonness of woe that swept over my heart, whelming it with terrible desolation! The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer. For her sins she could and must answer with the weal or woe of her own soul. And if we do not find her safe and well, woe to the man who has harmed her. This necessarily leads to counteraction, and woe be to the unhappy townsman who refuses aught to his lordly patron. The heir was as woe begone of face and as crassly sombre of raiment as even the most captious could have desired. But woe to him who, unendowed by nature with their gifts, seeks to imitate them. Here all is easy, natural, undistorted, but withal what a mass of woe is here accumulated! What to us is a paltry trial is the cause of keenest, unalleviated woe to the child of five. In Tibet everybody is a surgeon, thus woe to the unfortunate who needs one. How if we sent letters to this Majesty of kesh, saying, 'Thou hast heard our tale, thou knowest all our woe. At a smile with love aglow, At a frown a statued woe, Standing pinnacled in pain Till a kiss sets free! If you have been given to sharp practice or dishonesty, woe be unto you when you fall. Infuriated by this prophecy of woe, the guilty people, at the command of their guiltier king, stoned him to death. Woe to the specialist who is not a pretty fair generalist, and woe to the generalist who is not also a bit of a specialist. Did she not break into lamentation and woe that a brother should so demean himself? It was the denial of this simple truth which deluged France in blood and woe. Show More Sentences The scene of woe was gone, and the dayspring of hope had risen for the two girls. But woe betide Alexander and all rareripe Bostonians who mistake the scaffolding for the edifice. Everything went on propitiously, until, in an hour of woe, it was discovered that the infant Princess could not speak! And what was the cause of all this commotion, which converted America, for seven years, into an Aceldama of blood and woe? But there was one spot thrown into alto relievo by the sombre drapery of woe. In the apocalyptic style of the housekeeper of Invermay, woe be to that person! From the printer's I went on to the Piazza Navona and found a wilderness of woe. What dark treasure-houses of vicissitude and woe are our memories become! Byzantium worked woe to the elder sister of whom she was jealous. Now a siege was necessary, with all its accompaniments of blood and woe. From the look of unutterable woe upon his face, it appeared to be his doom to spend eternity in a vain effort to make his accounts balance. Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, Four women, taught by weal and woe To love and labor in their prime. In fact, I am very unhappy, and Brea is the cause of my woe. No, it was Bushido, pure and simple, that urged us on for weal or woe. It is not a play, it is a chorale of woe, malediction, and want. Through paths unknown Thy soul hath flown, To seek the realms of woe, Where fiery pain Shall purge the stain Of actions done below. Ye on the mountain side that grow, Ye green things all, trees, shrubs, and bushes, Are ye aweary of the woe That this poor aching bosom crushes? If that be so, I but await The stroke of a resistless fate, Since, working for my woe, these three, Love, Chance and Heaven, in league I see. The sacrist leaned forward with the face of one who bears tidings of woe. We could not miss the way, our driver said, and woe betide us if we did! Show More Sentences Biddy, wise with previous bitter bereavements, had sat down on the edge of the sand, her fore-feet in the water, and was mouthing her woe. A swarm of naked brats with a frouzy Indian wife set up a howl of woe. O why should such glorious qualifications be the fruitful source of woe! In another moment, the whole of it burst into flames, and the exclamations of woe and horror were redoubled. But still I see the tenor of Mans woe Holds on the same, from Woman to begin. As the fevered narrator stitches together his delusional tale of woe, his writing becomes his nepenthe. His tone had never been so lachrymose, nor his face so full of woe. For weal or woe the lives of Lauretta and Gabriel were henceforth one. And if Leghorn should fall into the hands of the enemy, woe to Florence! But woe to the person who gives his tessera to a careless concierge! Could the Madonna, who was so maternal, desire the woe of lovers? They sang once more, a hymn that prophesied woe to the unbeliever. Be then his Love accurst, since love or hate, To me alike, it deals eternal woe. Did he haunt the Wailing Wall, then, sharing the woe of his brethren? Let him waiver or be uncertain in his decisions and woe is it to him. In the woe or weal of a whole life, we must decide for ourselves. As heaven's above, his future weal Or woe depends upon my silence! How much of Canada's weal or woe depends upon the selection? In all the operations of nature, man's weal and woe are involved. The palm-tree trembles as it passes, as if it were a spirit of woe. Show More Sentences But thrice woe to the artisan who makes himself the zealot of the Dogma! It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. And woe to Boythorn or other daring wight who shall presumptuously contest an inch with him! Just as it was tremblingly imperative that Jerry must suddenly squat down, point his nose at the zenith, and vocalize his heart-rending woe, an idea came to him. Utmost agony, woe, degradation, want, and loss of all things, shall only hasten on the process by which he shall be made a king and a priest unto God! For in his eyes I read some lurid woe would shrivel me up, had I it. Are the Achaeans, woe betide them, pressing you hard about the city that you have thought fit to come and uplift your hands to Jove from the citadel? I tried both ways, and when it came to a sniff or utter mortification and woe, he just threw the grammar on to the floor and marched out of the room. He had been sitting cross-legged listening to this tale of woe. Glad was the Spirit impure as now in hope To find who might direct his wandring flight To Paradise the happie seat of Man, His journies end and our beginning woe. There were pall-bearers on horseback, with the richest scarfs and hatbands, and even the under-bearers had trappings of woe which were of a good well-priced quality. Woe unto every blind or club-foot man, and every one-armed or scalded woman, I meet to-day! Woe betide them, for all their gold collars and maces, had they kept her out! Woe betide the latter-day Saint, who dares to dream of dissent or apostasy! Woe to the tiny trout or samlet that comes within reach of its formidable pike, for it is at once impaled and gulped down. Woe to the trout or samlet that comes within range of the heron's terrible pike, for it is at once impaled and gulped down. Woe to the red fox that litters in the pinetum, or to the birds that make nests in the shrubberies! Woe to the defaulter whose appeal lay to the tribunal where those severe eyes presided. Woe be to the wrongdoer who triumphs in such a case as this! Show More Sentences Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots. Woe for the day when he was seduced to forsake that dear retirement! Woe betide the unfilial wretch who neglected the tomb of his father! Woe is me that I am fated to have Sarpedon, dearest of men to me, subdued at the hands of Patroclus the son of Menoetius. Woe indeed if I be chosen as revealer and if my dreams be true. Woe then to whomsoever had transgressed any of the commandments! Woe to the vocalist, male or female, who falls into Schweitzer's hands! Woe to the boatsman who passed the rock at the close of day! Woe to the katydid if it were anything but this bright green! Woe to those who seek to be juster than the just, wiser than the wise. Woe to any defenseless party of white men that may then fall in their way! 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What is the opposite of woe? Words that rhyme with woe What is the plural of woe? What is the adverb for woe? What is the adjective for woe? What is the noun for woe? Translations for woe Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words wodge Woden Wodehouse wobegone Wobbly wobbly woebegone woe betide woeful woefully woefulness woes 3-letter Words Starting With w wo