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How to use bemoan in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb

Bemoan means to moan or complain about (something). Example: “He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn.”

Examples of bemoan by meaning

verbTo moan or complain about (something).

  • He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn.
  • Hogg,” Helena would say often when Georgina bemoaned her husband’s desertion.1957, Muriel Spark, chapter 7, in The Comforters, New York: Avon, published 1965, page 155
  • Sixty? ‘You’ll have to speak to her, Cyril,’ she’d have told him, before bemoaning how respectable this street was before they came.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 9, in Small Island, London: Review, page 112

verbTo be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them.

  • The lady must be bemoaned.”1987, Tanith Lee, “Children of the Night”, in Night’s Sorceries, Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, page 396

More sentences with bemoan

  • Words, words, words, bemoans Hamlet, in conversation with the garrulous but inconsequential Polonius, whom he labels a "seller of fish".2018 November 29, Brian Taylor, “Brexit and sellers of fish”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2019. From the entry a mite
  • Larks was right in bemoaning his indoorness.2011, Maggie Pouncey, Perfect Reader, Anchor, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry indoorness
  • Every year a paper or a book appears, bemoaning the fate of economics and complaining about its attempts to ape physics.2010, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 180. From the entry ape
  • I remember a woman I know bemoaning her weight loss failures to me over three full-fat mugaccinos one day.2010, Sally Symonds, 50 Steps to Lose 50 kg…and Keep It Off, Palmer Higgs Pty Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry mugaccino
  • Much ink has been spilt bemoaning that incomprehensible foundation of hospital cost accounting and prices, the redoubtable chargemaster.2007, James C. Robinson, “Price Transparency Begins at Home”, in Frontiers of Health Services Management, volume 23, number 3, American…. From the entry chargemaster
  • The locals bemoan the tourist crush and at the same time welcome it because it puts food on the table.2005, Darwin Porter et al., Frommer's Italy 2005. From the entry put food on the table
  • Again she bemoans the inroad of interruptions, especially those of the "inexorable" telephone which keeps Polly on the jump.1937, The New Outlook for the Blind - Volumes 31-32, page 198. From the entry on the jump
  • Another, a partner in a consulting firm, bemoans that her colleagues now identify her as a mother: “I hate that they see me like that.”2020 October 19, Kate Mildenhall, “For women in lockdown with kids, it's impossible to be seen as anything other than a mother”, in The…. From the entry mumness
  • He bemoaned and bewhined it to all who would listen, and men began, half-jokingly, to call the scene of the tragedy Tallow Lake.1921, Alfred Lee Donaldson, A History of the Adirondacks, volume 2, page 101. From the entry bewhine
  • Those who bemoan the self-absorption of the postliterate generation will be happy to know that before the self-indulgent, amateurish blog there was the self-indulgent, amateurish log.2008 January 20, David Kirby, “Pas de Deux”, in New York Times. From the entry postliterate
  • "I swear I've watched as much MTV Base an Juggy D videos as they have, but I still can't attain the right level a rudeboy finesse," bemoans Jas.2007, Dohra Ahmad, Rotten English: A Literary Anthology. From the entry rudeboy

Meaning of bemoan

  1. verb To moan or complain about (something).
  2. verb To be dismayed or worried about (someone), particularly because of their situation or what has happened to them.

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Questions about bemoan in a sentence

How do you use bemoan in a sentence?
Bemoan is used as a verb. For example: “He bemoaned the drought but went on watering his lawn.”
What is a short sentence with bemoan?
“The lady must be bemoaned.””
What does bemoan mean?
Bemoan means to moan or complain about (something).

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