woe is me

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2019

Your book is not a "woe is me" story.

From Salon • May 25, 2019

But the constant "woe is me", especially from upper middle class women, gets tiring.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2018

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