Sentence examples for woeful year from inspiring English sources

The results followed a woeful year; at the end of its fiscal year in March 31, the company reported a loss of $5.7 billion, in the face of stiff competition from Korean competitors and Apple.

Yankee fans have never forgiven Rogers for his two woeful years with the team, and Mets fans will never forget how Rogers walked home the deciding run in last year's National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, and there was a smattering of boos when Rogers's name was called Wednesday.

In my intake interview, I alternated between breaking down in tears and repeating that I wanted to go home, like a woeful 7-year-old left behind at sleep-away camp.

"Fighting Terrorism, and Lassitude" (editorial, Oct. 29) is on target in describing the nation's woeful unpreparedness a year after the 9/11 attacks.

Given the size of the country – and the economy – investment has been woeful for many years.

ABC, reeling from years of woeful comedy development, heard the message a couple of years ago.

Forty more years of woeful discrimination and underachievement is not an option.

Here is a man who brought this country sporting glory – after years of woeful underachievement, remember – only to be rewarded with that curiously British thing: mild derision.

Plymouth fans have been bemoaning their team's woeful home form for years and Sheridan's failure to improve it since arriving in January means he is under serious pressure.

Labour said the funding pledge for the IWF, spread over four years, was "woeful" and filters would not be available to all parents until 2018 at the earliest.

In addition, the woeful regression of third-year running back Eddie Lacy (758 yards, 3 touchdowns) has essentially eliminated the threat of play-action.