lamented
Example Sentences
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Leo lamented “the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”
Last Friday, when announcing her resignation from Congress, she lamented that five major bills she sponsored had never been considered.
"They were just children who were barely learning to live. Where they should have been was studying in school, playing," lamented the boy's sister, herself barely 18 and unnamed for fear of reprisals.
From Barron's
More than 60 years ago, Marxist auto worker James Boggs lamented automation’s role in the seemingly inevitable demise of the American laborer.
“A bay with a lift and tools and no one to work in it—are you kidding me? Nope,” Mr. Farley lamented.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
