lament for

Example Sentences

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Listen to DtMF: A lament for the loved ones he's lost, the album's title track translates as, "I should have taken more photos".

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025

And while “Marce Catlett” is in many ways a lament for an “oldfangled” lifestyle that now persists only in stories, it arrives at another of this author’s favorite words.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

This historical novel is a lament for his continent’s past through the eyes of its first disillusioned dreamer.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 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

She, being the nearest woman relative, raised a formal lament for the dead of the family.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck