lament
Example Sentences
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Many of us hear our children and grandchildren lament their financial difficulties.
From Barron's
He spent seven months rehabilitating his knee in order to be fit for the Ashes and lamented not being able to play some games for his county before heading to Australia for the series.
From BBC
“There is an involuntary review,” he says, “in between the multiple times per day I nap. But it’s not a grieving lament.”
This made the laments at Friday’s panel sound like the world’s longest re-creation of the “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” Hot Dog suit meme.
She laments curtailing her protests out of fear.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
