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.
  • Not bad, as far as a woo-her-back letter goes.
    — Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Nope, a new group of guys are about to show up to try and woo the women.
    — oregonlive, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Luxury woo woo, in the best way.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Most states want to woo new businesses.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This breeding time, known as the rut, sees all sorts of males lock antlers to woo a mate.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 12 Jan. 2021
  • No one can woo quite like Americans who want to win.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
  • Story-wise, a hand sets out to find its owner, while a guy tries to woo a girl.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2022
  • Looney will use his vast contacts to help Prometheus woo the tech giants.
    — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Chris remains his ditzy self, wooing Brooke from lines with his own movies.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
  • And then some like woo woo sh*t, like essential oils and incense.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 July 2018
  • That means customers will have less time to shop and retailers will have less time to woo them.
    — Fortune, 29 Nov. 2019
  • If this all sounds like a terrible way to be wooed, hold on to your smartphones, friends.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Kalluk had wooed Chinook over the years, but their match did not produce any cubs.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
  • But that hasn’t stopped countries from trying to woo back tourists, even from Britain.
    — Nicole Winfield, USA TODAY, 29 May 2021
  • But that hasn't stopped countries from trying to woo back tourists, even from Britain.
    — Nicole Winfield, Star Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • Carl is wooed back into the house by Lindsay, of all people.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 May 2026
  • Wickers sat on a cooler by the old firehouse waiting to start woo-ing.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Attempts to woo people could suffer from some of the same pitfalls.
    — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2020
  • My fingers are crossed for their wooing success, but only time will tell.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Fall is spawning season for a number of species of trout and salmon; there are mates to woo and nests to guard.
    — Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Stenger flew around the world, wooing foreign investors with the promise of a green card.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Once the young are on their own, males return to tidy up the nest and begin wooing females again.
    — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
  • To make up for ditching her all those years ago, Joe recreates their high school prom and tries to woo her.
    — Caroline Blair, People.com, 12 May 2025
  • The tribe members, who said they had been wooed with promises of medicines, received nothing.
    — Brendan Borrell, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Rather than build a nest to attract a female, some males woo other males who have already built nests.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • And Kansas is expected to work hard to woo at least one of the teams to their side of the area.
    — Chandler Boese, Kansas City Star, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Others have tested new formats on the eve of an election in a bid to woo the broadband crowd.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Biden, in other words, has a chance to woo back working class voters of all races to the Democrats.
    — J.c. Pan, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2020

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