woe is me

Example Sentences

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But it's hard to imagine that most Americans will start liking Vance after they hear him pull the "woe is me" act for the full length of tonight's debate.

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024

“I don’t want this to sound like woe is me, but I’ll be honest,” Farrow says.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2019

“There are other people who’ve had better diagnoses than I have perhaps, but others far worse. I don’t get caught up in woe is me or why me.”

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2017

So for me to sit up here and complain and say woe is me?

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2017

Oh! woe is me that I must say it--we deserve it, for they made her a bad return for all her love and fidelity.

From The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister by Hillern, Wilhelmine von