Sentence examples for be a woeful from inspiring English sources

For the Supreme Court to rule for the challengers would be a woeful outcome.

Their own civil servants have already advised them that 40,000 more children would fall into poverty as a result of extending the cap (this is likely to be a woeful underestimate of the true figure).

This would be a woeful prospect when taken in isolation, but seems more reprehensible when we know that others with much greater liabilities (moral if not legal ones) are treated with kid gloves.

As I sit here writing this, I am beginning to think even that will be a woeful underestimate.

"Theirs shall be a woeful punishment" (2 175).

First, the public sector has proven to be a woeful manager of its own resources.

"It was a woeful performance against Millwall.

There is a woeful coda.

It is a woeful and complex story.

It had been a woeful night.

The hotel is a woeful sight.