How to Use woebegone in a Sentence

woebegone

adjective

• 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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