WOO in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for WOO, such as:

1. But him no woman's eyes had wooed.
2. And wooed on Coosa's side Aurora's beam.
3. I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride.
4. Politicians are often said to woo voters.
5. Many wooed her from wide Latium and all Ausonia.

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 Meanings and Examples of WOO
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
woo
 v.  solicit in love; court solicitously; invite with importunity; make love
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  He was bold and nicely behaved; he had not come to woo the Princess, but only to hear her wisdom.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SNOW QUEEN
2  Soon afterwards there was another knock, and another fox was at the door who wished to woo Mrs Fox.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WEDDING OF MRS FOX
3  KENNICOTT was not so inhumanly patient that he could continue to forgive Carol's heresies, to woo her as he had on the venture to California.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  I'll woo her as the lion woos his bride.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  And now a day and another day hath sped; the breezes woo our sails, and the canvas blows out to the swelling south.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
6  And wooed on Coosa's side Aurora's beam.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  At length a man came from a distance and wooed her, who was called Hans; but he stipulated that Clever Elsie should be really smart.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In CLEVER ELSIE
8  Many wooed her from wide Latium and all Ausonia.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
9  These words spoken, he clasped his wife in the desired embrace, and, sinking in her lap, wooed quiet slumber to overspread his limbs.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
10  Half his destiny would then be determined, but the other half might not be so very smoothly wooed.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  But him no woman's eyes had wooed.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
12  can only wish that your wooing may prosper as mine has.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
13  His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
14  His second wooing, he resolved, should be as calm and simple as possible.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
15  You suitors are not wooing me after the custom of my country.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  If something could disenchant voters, it would be the image of a political leader who is relying on an omnipotent image to woo votes.
2  The party has been trying to woo the voters with promises of electoral reform.
3  All attempts by the Socialists to woo him back were spurned.
4  Men are April when they woo,December when they wed;maids are May when they are maids,but the sky changes when they are wives.
5  He was trying to woo the daughter of a Missouri aris - tocrat.
6  Politicians are often said to woo voters.
7  They wooed customers by offering low interest rates.
8  After all the trouble of wooing and wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of fortune.
9  In the story, the prince woos and wins the fair maiden.