Sentence examples for woefully lost from inspiring English sources

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It is, he seems to suggest, an imitation of God and not a particularly kind one, since once you set these exemplary creatures loose in the world, they err, they decay, they get woefully lost.

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England has been apologizing for the behavior of its players because of incidents in hotels and bars, and France has been saying sorry to its distraught fans ever since woefully losing to Tonga and almost failing to reach the last eight.

She was trembling backstage before her bout, and she was woefully overmatched, losing to a Puerto Rican in 82 seconds.

The state electricity boards that distribute power in the country, are woefully inefficient, losing up to a fifth of the country's 100,000 megawatts of power output to line loss and theft.

On the pitch in Germany a woefully under-performing England lost respect, credibility and yet another quarter-final.

The album begins with a rendition of Don Henley's "The Boys Of Summer" which tells the story of a lurking ex-boyfriend who is woefully looking for his lost love at the end of summer.

Labour performed woefully in Scotland, losing 13 assembly seats and finishing third in terms of both vote-share and seats behind a resurgent Scottish Conservative party led by Ruth Davidson.

What almost certainly won't get a mention is the PlayStation Vita, Sony's current handheld console directly competing and losing woefully in sales terms with Nintendo's 3DS line.

What almost certainly won't get a mention is the PlayStation Vita, Sony's current handheld console directly competing – and losing woefully in sales terms – with Nintendo's 3DS line.

When the bubble burst, it left in its wake woefully expensive economies that had lost their competitiveness.

After deposits he valued at more than a trillion dollars turned out to be woefully small this year, his company lost more than 96% of its value and has been unable to pay back creditors.

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