How To Use Woebegone In A Sentence
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But even in this woebegone state, the structure was stunning.
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Stop looking so woebegone, Justine," Grace said one evening.
GO!
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There's no need to look so woebegone - we can get it fixed.
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The article ends with a woebegone quote from the doctor: ‘It is strange how a system can become so bad that no one, not a single person, can change it.’
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She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
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When he wants to go for a walk, the dog sits by the door with a woebegone expression.
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It was such a familiar woebegone scene, and it served to highlight just how anomalous the sunshine was.
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In such a woebegone place, drink is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone
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Her woebegone eyes spoke of unbearable suffering.
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a woebegone old shack
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Through the radio's single, partially blown speaker came a recording of a local woman in her late 40s, her voice utterly woebegone.
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His woebegone expression would go straight to the heart of any woman.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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Meanwhile, there is not so much as a sentence, or even a clause, about the woebegone state of the episcopate, and its role in hampering the Church's mission.
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I was greeted by the saddest, most woebegone look he could muster.
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His beat is the woebegone parts of the planet most people avoid like the plague.
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When he wants to go for a walk, the dog sits by the door with a woebegone expression.
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The ghost of his splits (band and marriage) hang over Bigger than Blue, but it never slips into woebegone narratives or diatribes.
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She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
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See you that fashion that wear a woebegone wording, how, primp as my boyfriend, so fold you old your good ego?
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Outside the main gate were a few students with woebegone faces, for they had been unable to produce their identity cards and had therefore been denied entry.
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Her parents and Dom had managed to speak, but made it plain by their woebegone expressions that she was doing The Wrong Thing.
TICKLED PINK
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Originally published in 1971, the publication has at its heart what purports to be the yearbook of the fictional C. Estes Kefauver Memorial High School in tragically woebegone Dacron, Ohio.
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Adding to Penguin's woebegone mental state, the guards and inmates have been continuously teasing him about his tattoo.
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Given in his oscillations of mood to a lugubrious woebegoneness ” "He could be just the saddest-looking thing," remembers Roger Wilkins, one of his administration deputies ” Johnson while president brooded ponderously over how he was discounted by the intellectual left as a blustering boor.
The Big Guy
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When he wants to go for a walk, the dog sits by the door with a woebegone expression.
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When he wants to go for a walk, the dog sits by the door with a woebegone expression.
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My favourite character was Pedro, Napoleon's Hispanic friend, whose quiet manner and woebegone expression were constant throughout the film.
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Of course, the commodity that we face false bad today still is a pair woebegone.
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Only a brief woebegone show of energy from a denim-clad fan to the front creates a slight tickle of fervour, which is a damn shame considering what the bruising the band dole out live.
Drowned In Sound // Feed
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By the time Sara had made her delivery - in a rainstorm - tattered Mylar hung forlornly from a warped and woebegone frame.
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The no-more-bowing decision was credited to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, an amiable, faintly woebegone chap who is a cousin of the queen.
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This is the party you could have if you only did something, instead of sitting here, feeling dejected, disconsolate and woebegone…
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She maintains her wanness behind a cello, bowing away, all woebegone.
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As I was reading up the case, a woebegone figure exited from a door behind me, looking like an actor at an audition who'd just been given the don't call-us-we'll-call-you treatment.
