woebegone

Example Sentences

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Ms. Duleba-Kasza’s Ola is a woebegone delight; one can sense the psychic miles Marcin has run up on her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

Alternately woebegone and hopeful, his star-studded “Lovin’ of the Game,” out Friday, is an ecstatic document of what the fiddle has meant to his story — and what he hopes to mean to its history.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023

Williams put together perhaps the most woebegone effort of his college career, finishing 16 for 36 for 180 yards and a touchdown.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2022

There was one point during the game when Mahomes, after throwing his fourth touchdown pass, put up four fingers at a woebegone defender, as if to say: “How ‘bout that?”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Now and then, sitting next to Mammy, seeing the drooping, woebegone looks around the room, the magnitude of the disaster that had struck her family would register with Laila.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini