How to Use lament in a Sentence

lament

1 of 2 verb
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  • She lamented over the loss of her best friend.
  • That’s where the ice loss that Dodd was lamenting comes in.
    — Cheryl Katz, National Geographic, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Last week, Biden lamented the choice of the law’s name.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
  • For Eastwood, the slim prospects of the wannabe-hero can merit lament.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Hurston laments: All these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold.
    — Angela Helm, The Root, 10 May 2018
  • On the track, the quartet lament how a lover only calls them on the weekends.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Many lamented the high prices and the lack of healthy options.
    — Andrea Whittle, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2019
  • Still, Lattin laments that there has to be a battle in the first place.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 8 Sep. 2017
  • To seize the day, to lament, to mourn, to be nostalgic, to be proactive.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Many cyclists at the 2023 ride lamented the end of the Classic.
    — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
  • One friend has lamented the loss of the recreation of the grand staircase at the start of the second act.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Lovullo was left to lament the way the fourth inning played out.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The judge, for his part, lamented all the medical tests.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Riders no doubt lamented the end of an era — and the end of feeling the open breeze.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2018
  • But rather than lament the headlines, the WHO welcomes them.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 1 June 2023
  • In this case, the Sox lamented pivotal instances when the ball didn’t roll at all.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • One of the women lamented that her plans for a big fish fry that night were out the window.
    — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • There’s no reason to lament their absence in the budget.
    — Elise Amez-Droz, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Polemicists lament that cursive is going the way of the dodo.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • The Padres last year relied on the home run but lamented their abundance of homers with no one on base.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 June 2018
  • Saban lamented the sluggish start to the game but praised the response.
    — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Most of us don’t think much about pants these days, except to lament having to put them on in the morning.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Cannon went on to lament the erosion of his image of the couple.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • All of them lament the burning of bars over the last summer, chief among them Handle.
    — Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Sweeney has spent the last few years of interviews lamenting about not yet, at the age of 26, being a mom.
    — Kara Kennedy, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Tribal members lament that stars are lost in the glare of flaring waste gas from wells.
    — Matthew Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2021
  • Camp 1 includes those who lament the wuss-ification of the game.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • There goes that darned self-driving car again, a neighbor might lament.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
  • In the car, Kristy lamented the fact that no one backed her up, including Leah.
    — Keryn Donnelly, refinery29.com, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Brewers fans lament the loss of Cruz, 39, more than any other prospect.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2020
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lament

2 of 2 noun
  • The poem is a lament for a lost love.
  • And in the present time this kind of lament is what prayer looks like.
    — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • There was great in Nate Carter, and much more to love than lament.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Listen to the laments from the COP28 conference in Dubai.
    — Llewellyn King, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Her casket was lowered to the strains of a lament from the queen’s bagpiper.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • That lament, that desire for change, is echoed again and again.
    — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2021
  • The demise of the Oakland tailgate scene was a common lament.
    — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The answer to Grace Young's lament about losing the classics.
    — Francis Lam, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2021
  • It’s both ode and lament for Los Angeles, and works like a kind of map of the city in words.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • Mid-lament, RuPaul locks eyes with the future of drag, Chad.
    — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2020
  • The species' dismal status led Leopold to pen his lament for the future of cranes.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2022
  • On the day of the queen’s state funeral in September, a lone piper played a lament on the deck.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Her mouth, open in a lament or siren song, has the red lips of one of de Kooning’s women.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Hawke, who is a second cousin of Williams, rode the elegiac rhythms of the play’s gorgeous lament.
    — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
  • In France, though, many lament that the far right has been all but normalized.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Few ordinary young Saudis lament—and many cheer—the woes of the old elites.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2017
  • This is a lament over what has become — of big-league baseball.
    — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • This sure reads like a lament over remaining in the Frozen Wasteland.
    — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Some of you will suggest that is the typical old man’s lament.
    — Dallas News, 6 June 2022
  • Duggan, who owns the D.C. bar Madam’s Organ, laughs now at the wryness and lack of lament in those texts.
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Come on, the lament goes, show some compassion and common sense.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The trio shared similar laments, going back to a loss against Georgia on the road.
    — Nubyjas Wilborn | , al, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Wonder’s lament is the wrong song when the politics of hatred rule.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Like many great breakup songs, this one is both a lament and an indictment.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • Experts and members of Congress lament that far more needs to be done.
    — David Lightman, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • As with many laments of cultural decline, the charge is most often levied by the old against the young.
    — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
  • And the three liberals combined on a 60-page lament on the overruling of Roe.
    — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
  • This was previously on the schedule for last year, and postponed, to the lament of many.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Her only lament was that the formula didn’t help tame her frizz.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
  • This tribute to the living was also an elegy, a lament for the dead.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2020

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