How to Use woebegone in a Sentence

woebegone

adjective
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  • His face had a woebegone expression.
  • Throw in a Hooker, and the woebegone Tigers will be on their way.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Hicks has the right look for a woebegone young woman who doesn’t want to take up a lot of space in the world.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
  • That long drought has made Seattle a woebegone franchise, the butt of jokes.
    — Tim Booth, ajc, 1 Oct. 2022
  • But when the game began, the woebegone Jets quickly raced to a two-touchdown lead.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2019
  • James could go to the Knicks and revive a woebegone franchise that hasn’t won a title since 1973.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 9 June 2018
  • Is there a more woebegone movie genre than the video game adaptation?
    — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 21 Apr. 2021
  • With back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning, the woebegone Twins had broken open a previously one-run game.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 26 June 2016
  • Some of the men have put their arms around one another’s shoulders, sort of in a band-of-brothers-ish way, and all of our faces are woebegone and depleted.
    — Barrett Swanson, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Dolan isn’t merely the owner of a rich but woebegone franchise but an embarrassment to the NBA.
    — Nick Leyva, Orange County Register, 22 Apr. 2017
  • In Portland, woebegone passengers took to Twitter to vent as a sheet of ice left most planes grounded.
    — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The answer is clear on the change that Patricia needs to make in order to get this woebegone franchise out of the doldrums: It’s time to add a second pencil.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The woebegone skipper is a frequent target for Cards fans, but this ejection happens to have been a prudent one.
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • But credit Warner for leading the long woebegone Rams and Cardinals out of the wilderness.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2018
  • More than the once-formidable-now-woebegone New York Giants, which the 49ers also faced eight times in playoffs.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2022
  • His career took off, though, when Jackson's Tony Dungy became coach of the otherwise woebegone Bucs.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
  • And talk about a pair of woebegone franchises failing to help one another.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Rivers spent seven seasons with the Clippers, making the playoffs in six of them — major success for a once-woebegone franchise.
    — Dan Gelston, Houston Chronicle, 1 Oct. 2020
  • America’s frackers need only look at the country’s woebegone coalminers to catch a glimpse of their fate in a distant post-oil future.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Baylor trailed the woebegone Cyclones by 17 points in the first half before getting its act together over the final 20 minutes.
    — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2021
  • But what Muschamp has done to repair a once-woebegone program, capped this year with a 7-3 record (so far) that nobody really saw coming, deserves more of a commitment from the school.
    — David Caraviello, ajc, 12 Nov. 2017
  • After a year spent off the rails, Taggart also should breathe some life and energy into a suddenly sour and woebegone program.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Its woebegone people — faces and facts devoid of political analysis — are like an army of the brainwashed.
    — Armond White, National Review, 16 June 2021
  • Adams’ declaration reminded me of the scene from Animal House, when John Belushi’s character gave a pep talk to woebegone frat brothers.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In what has become a ritual for the woebegone Dodgers, Clayton Kershaw played catch Tuesday afternoon.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 15 May 2018
  • And the careful restoration lavished on what were often woebegone prints only increases their value.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Sam Darnold’s ignited the hopes of a woebegone franchise, even during an offseason packed with internal tumult.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The woebegone Cincinnati Bengals hold that pick, something that will generate interest and questions.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2020
  • That’s why the Korean government allowed for one casino citizens can patronize, but put it in a remote, woebegone mining area that is difficult to get to from Seoul.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Miranda Fitch, the pained, woebegone protagonist at the center of the book, once was a fairly successful, happily married stage actor.
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021

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