lament

As performed by Price, Baez and Memphis Mariachi, their version of “Deportee” manages to be everything: a lament, a celebration of the lives lost, a tribute, a reminder.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

The familiar lament that Indian football fans have learnt to live with is back after the "greatest show on earth" kicked off last week.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

Those of us who languish in the academic wasteland are too tardy to lament, so little has changed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Even though the Bobcats’ shaky defense spotted USC two unearned runs, the Trojans will surely lament stranding runners in scoring position in each of the first seven innings.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

“Dead,” the old woman told him, nodding in emphatic lament, pointing to her head with the flat of her hand.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

“Sometimes I think I can feel the planet just hemorrhaging under all this greed. Like it’s tectonic,” she laments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

It laments the "British government has so far done nothing to bring her to justice".

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

"Blocks of flats are being built where there used to be one- or two-storey houses," he laments.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

He also laments that the pizza boxes he uses, which are made in China, once cost him 30 cents and now run almost 67 cents apiece.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

“My wife died birthing him,” Grandpa laments as if it were days, not decades, ago.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

They lamented the lack of public transportation options, then marveled at Waymo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Zelensky himself lamented that the two sides were barely on speaking terms.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

Actor Justin Baldoni and his wife, Emily, lamented trauma and pain endured by their family in their first public remarks after a long-running legal battle with co-star Blake Lively.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Some beachgoers have lamented that Laguna Beach’s policy is too restrictive, and that long days spent on the sand require more shade than a small umbrella provides, particularly for families with small children.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

“Tom Smith,” lamented a reporter, “is by no means a long distance conversationalist. Ten words in a row for him would constitute a course record.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

For that reason, lamenting the benefits he never received after his death is, in my view, misplaced.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

What value is there in an existence spent lamenting what was and what could’ve been?

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

Like Eagle Rockers, San Franciscans were done merely lamenting the community’s loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Internet threads attracted hundreds of comments lamenting “foggageddon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

For several hundred years commentators on the English language have been predicting, lamenting, or celebrating the imminent extinction of the subjunctive mood.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker