bewailing

Example Sentences

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A mocking cartoon showed a distraught Johnson with a hand over his face bewailing “the scurrilous attacks on the Mother of my Children.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2021

Fishermen bewailing empty nets made by their own hand, just as their fathers and their grandfathers did, all the way back to the time of Jesus before he bade them to become fishers of men.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 23, 2016

Bai had attempted to be a Samson bewailing blindness in hammy operatic fashion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2016

Whether all-singing, all-dancing, engaging in a dialogue of the dispossessed, or bewailing a lost companion, the shepherds and nymphs of pastoral poetry were figments of imagination from the start.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2010

Their ghosts were rumored to walk the halls at night, bewailing their fate and complaining about the food in the Mess.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss