lament for
Example Sentences
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Much of his writing is a lament for the passing of old-time ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
It linked to a short film: a 20-minute polemic against the emptiness of modern life, a lament for a vanished world of hierarchies and heroism.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
He offers a lament for an Indigenous people historically persecuted in their own land.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Really, you could almost make of Orange County’s unfortunate geography some version of long-ago Mexican President Porfirio Diaz’s lament for his own country: “So far from God, so close to the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
We answered with a cry of our own, both a victory yell and a lament, for everything lost and yet to be gained.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
