woe is me
Example Sentences
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If anything, making himself the centerpiece of a "woe is me" campaign is backfiring.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025
So for me to sit up here and complain and say woe is me?
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2017
Take responsibility instead: Not in a masochistic, woe is me way, but in an empowering way.
From Inc • Dec. 10, 2012
His story isn’t about, Oh, woe is me.
From New York Times • May 31, 2012
At the fount the bowl is broken, I shall drink it not again, All my longing prayers are spoken, And felt, ah, woe is me, in vain!
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
