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Meanings of woebegone in English
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Examples for "derelict"
Examples for "derelict"
1
Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
2
The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
3
Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
4
Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
5
The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict.
1
Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
2
The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
3
The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit.
4
Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
5
Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
1
You have to add creaky voice and it means something totally different.
2
Analogous measures can be taken to keep creaky old operating systems working.
3
These creaky old tools could adapt better to how we work today.
4
Mr Verloc heard the creaky plank in the floor, and was content.
5
Then I heard the scraping of a creaky portal on the floor.
1
Nodding without really understanding, Luke indicated the run-down though obviously popular cantina.
2
It is far from the stereotypical image of a run-down city suburb.
3
Although the house was run-down, the land itself was a gold mine.
4
He gave a run-down on the relatively new science of marine bio-acoustics.
5
But truly, Marianne, this place was almost as run-down as Woods House.
1
The last thing Lucius needed was a flea-bitten monster disrupting his household.
2
You flea-bitten harpy, have not you had enough of me today?
3
You are worse than a dog, you old flinty-faced, flea-bitten scrub.
4
He was a mouse-coloured, slate-coloured, flea-bitten roan- dun, if you can conceive it.
5
Gertie was skinny and flea-bitten, but she started licking my face.
Usage of woebegone in English
1
At once his countenance fell; he turned upon me a woebegone eye.
2
Withhold not Thy countenance from the tears and beseechings of the woebegone.
3
The boys groaned in unison at this, and even Betty looked woebegone.
4
The Wobegon Boy in question, John Tollefson, should be anything but woebegone.
5
She looked very pale and woebegone when she came down to breakfast.
6
Whereupon she turned a very woebegone and tearful face up to his.
7
He stood before me the most woebegone, heartbroken man I ever saw.
8
She raised her pretty, woebegone face to his and smiled very faintly.
9
Sancho, wholly dejected and woebegone, knew not what to say or do.
10
I do not like to see you so woebegone, that is all.
11
She left him, and Sidney fell back on his chair, woebegone, distracted.
12
Who are frantically happy at my coming and bitterly woebegone in my absence
13
As the pair travelled along in this woebegone manner, a thought struck Ceres.
14
She found her still in bed, looking very woebegone and wistful.
15
It was droopy and generally woebegone, but it served its purpose.
16
And she sprang upon the boat, laughing at my woebegone face.
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United Kingdom
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