bemoan

Example Sentences

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She's having to rely on her parents to help out, but bemoans the need for them to do so.

From BBC

Today, however, we come not to bemoan the bad times but celebrate the good times, for the Angels and Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times

She famously bemoaned his birth in a cruel letter, which Okrent suggests Sondheim may have misquoted.

From Los Angeles Times

Even the prosecutor touring a buried villa that’s become a crime scene, illegally stripped of its frescoes, bemoans what’s been lost when thieves rob a people of their ancestors’ memories.

From Los Angeles Times

Ravanelli, reportedly the highest-paid man in the league, scored at almost the same rate he bemoaned the club's professionalism in the Italian press, suggesting Juventus coaches were having to fax him fitness plans.

From BBC