Sentence examples for woeful about from inspiring English sources

Enron's return on capital — the most important measure of performance — was woeful, about what one could have made on a T-bill.

There is nothing "woeful" about the response of the country's medical schools to the need for more doctors ("America's Health Worker Mismatch," by Kate Tulenko, Op-Ed, Sept. 14).

They asked after one another's families and swapped woeful tales about uncooperative insurance companies and bad contractors.

Inside I felt  torn between a vague sense I should be sticking up for my people, an awareness of my woeful ignorance about the situation and a creeping unease that if I actually took the time to read up on it, I'd have to face some unpleasant truths.

Abu Yasser — a towering twenty-one-year-old from Rubiah, a village outside Mosul — told me a woeful story about being raised by his grandmother, shunned by his father, who had another family, and being unable to find work beyond occasional help on his uncles' farm.

Meanwhile, the web firms accuse the politicians of woeful ignorance about how the internet works and what constitutes a practical response to dealing with harmful content.

The moose and squirrel's woeful dialogue about inflation and economic realities ended there.

"I'm sure we'll pick up the papers and read about woeful Welsh suffering another rout," said Rowland Phillips, their articulate head coach, "but I do see the positives.

A much-changed Spurs side acquitted themselves well on a difficult surface before a combination of poor defending and woeful finishing brought about their first defeat in nine Europa League games this season.

It then became TV shows and books and magazines and, evidently, this woeful little pamphlet about Australia's marriage equality debate, and its miserable fucking attempt at a metaphor.

Meanwhile, an April 16 MRC press release complained about "woeful bias," "lowly crassness," and "sleaze-riddled condemnation" on the part of people on CNN and MSNBC in making "teabagging" references and featured Bozell thundering that "MSNBC and CNN both allow this vulgar attack-journalism to go out on their airwaves without blinking an eye and without any sign of guilt".