How to Use woo in a Sentence

woo

verb

• The store had a sale in an effort to woo new customers.
• The company must find creative ways to woo new employees.
• Nope, a new group of guys are about to show up to try and woo the women.
  — oregonlive, 18 Oct. 2022
• Stenger flew around the world, wooing foreign investors with the promise of a green card.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• The next murga, dressed in pink, black, and white, is lined up behind them, watching and waiting for their turn to woo the crowd.
  — Matt Dursum, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2023
• Common Kings, a band with Hawaiian roots, wooed the tired crowd, coaxing them out of their lawn chairs.
  — Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• It is designed to make the most of cool evenings and is perfect for wooing your high school sweetheart who has just moved back to town.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2023
• He was wooed online by a woman named Penny, who claimed to live in Seattle.
  — TIME, 21 Mar. 2024
• Some buy roses to woo their partners on Valentine’s Day.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• Like this, the kittens have become friends with the vet techs at Helen Woodward, and now the cats are ready to use their social skills to woo an adopter.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• The United States has made an effort to put its best foot forward in an attempt to woo Vietnam.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
• The work stoppage also brought Trump to Michigan to woo autoworkers.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• If he isn’t wooed by somebody, then collusion again is the star of the show, but there aren’t many kings out there willing to offer the crown jewels.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023
• Kelce was thwarted in his effort to woo the superstar with a friendship bracelet.
  — Mark Vancleave, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2024
• The city spent a considerable amount of money to woo the event planners, who have come here just twice before.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Many of whom DeSantis wants to woo for their deep pockets and connections.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• The new sector, though, is running up against an old debate: whether to use generous tax breaks to woo big business.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 19 July 2023
• Lately, a new crop of creatives has been wooed by Pasadena’s under-the-radar attitude.
  — Mosha Lundström Halbert, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
• Fry tells Madoc that traditionally one is supposed to woo the muse, but he's found brute force works just as well.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2022
• In the meantime, Musk is indicating the ad-sharing could woo more creators to Twitter.
  — PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2023
• One factor that could come into play, though, is the GOP's recent efforts in the midterm elections to woo Hispanics, who make up about 13% of the electorate.
  — Cristina Corujo, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2023
• The real-life Clark never got his Lois, but his creation continues to woo her more than 80 years later.
  — Roy Schwartz, CNN, 12 Nov. 2022
• The most famous example is his successful campaign to woo Jesse Helms to support aid to Africa.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
• In the 27 years since, no man has succeeded in wooing me into gridiron fandom.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2024
• The audience then greeted Smith, who entered the cinema down a set of stairs, with cheers, woos, high-fives and countless selfies.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2023
• Balwani's lawyers tried to shift the blame onto Holmes, once a rising star in Silicon Valley and the face of the company's effort to woo investors.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 8 July 2022
• That limits the government's scope for wooing voters with pre-election tax cuts.
  — Jill Lawless The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2024
• Trump wooed a group of Nevada Republicans with steaks and ice cream, according to two unnamed sources who were at the dinner.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2023
• Rather than engage with his rivals, Scott was able to lean on his optimistic message to woo fairgoers.
  — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Adani is also looking to woo India’s mom and pop investors to broaden his shareholder base.
  — Aradhana Aravindan, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024