| Cym III.vi.13 | [Innogen alone] To lapse in fulness / Is sorer than to lie for need |
| Ham I.i.75 | [Marcellus to Horatio and Barnardo] shipwrights, whose sore task / Does not divide the Sunday from the week |
| Ham V.i.169 | [First Clown to Hamlet] water is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body |
| Ham V.ii.223 | [Hamlet to Laertes] I am punished with a sore distraction |
| KL III.v.21 | [Edmund to Cornwall] I will persever in my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore between that and my blood |
| Per IV.ii.32 | [Pander to Bawd] the sore terms we stand upon with the gods |
| R3 I.iv.42 | [Keeper to Clarence, of Clarence's nightmare] Awaked you not in this sore agony? |
| Tem III.i.11 | [Ferdinand alone, of having to carry out his task] Upon a sore injunction |