deploring

Example Sentences

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Americans, in the meantime, kept poking at nominally Spanish California from the sea and overland, looking for weak points and deploring what they and Europeans thought were wasted possibilities in California’s under-exploited amenities.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025

But we tie ourselves in knots deploring how slow and technical and mincing legal accountability can be.

From Slate • Jan. 19, 2024

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry later issued a statement calling Paludan an “Islam-hating charlatan” and deploring the fact that he was allowed to stage the demonstration.

From Washington Times • Jan. 27, 2023

The flooding was an example of "what we have been deploring for some time," he said, adding that those countries which were responsible for pollution should do more to help those which are suffering.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2022

They write books and articles deploring it, fire off letters to the editor, and call in to radio talk shows with their criticisms and complaints.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker