Sentence example with the word 'lament'

lament

bawl, deplore, dolorous tirade, grieve, jeremiad, moaning, mutter, repine, sorrow, wail of woe, yawp

Definition n. a cry of sorrow and grief

Last update: September 15, 2016


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Mere lamenting over corruption is not going to remove it.   [verb]

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His death was lamented by few.   [verb]

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Although this was to be lamented, it could not create surprise or wonder in the old forester.   [Please select]

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He offered the city of London to the highest bidder, and lamented the slaughter of the Jews when the tenders were few.   [Please select]

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Pathetic laments of the family.   [noun]

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It is customary to compose laments over the death of an important person.   [Please select]

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I have no father to expect me, and but few friends to lament a fate which I have courted with the insatiable longings of youth after distinction.   [Please select]

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I can but lament that Providence gave me only two daughters, and one of them an arrant fool.   [Please select]

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Solidity, self-respect, pure absence of frivolous humor, ennobled the race and enabled them to hold together, so that everybody not born in Springhaven might lament, but never repair, his loss.   [Please select]

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