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• The poem's second line, for example, concludes with the lament "but my nerves.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 150. From the entry metareference
• One poem lamenting the whereabouts of a friend is so well known that Mr.2018 June 4, Steven Lee Myers, “How to Catch a Killer in China: Another Chinese Crime Novel Goes Global”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Slender West Lake
• You need not be a hypercorrective schoolmarm to lament such tolerance.2009 September 27, Jack Rosenthal, “Phantonym”, in New York Times. From the entry hypercorrective
• A captain usually laments about a players retirement but nevers persuades with such a relentful approach.2002 September 26, Nikhil Shah, “Nehra out, Ganguly wants Srinath back”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet). From the entry relentful
• They don't allow me to wear clothes I want, do things I want,' she laments.2000 February 14, Patricia Mok, The Straits Times (Life! section), Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry one
• Are showroom dealers lamenting over unsold lotsful of cars and trucks?1994 April 24, “Cost of money rising, but pain isn’t acute yet”, in News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, page 8F. From the entry lotful
• Reddit is full of posts lamenting these generational differences.2024 July 25, Chloe Mac Donnell, “‘Slay, serve, survive’: How gen Z is rewriting the rules of work”, in The Guardian. From the entry Gen Z-er
• Instead of being employed and lamenting over the loss of employment, money, and opportunity, we're now expected to be “funemployed”!2022, Whitney Goodman, Toxic Positivity […] , Penguin, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry funemployed
• First lady Jill Biden on Wednesday spoke candidly about her new life, lamenting the enormous pressure a first lady can face.2021 October 20, Kate Bennett, “Jill Biden speaks candidly about being a first lady: ‘Nothing can prepare you’”, in CNN. From the entry jill
• The Weekly Standard ran an interminable series of essays lauding manliness and lamenting its demise at the hands of liberalism.2016 May 16, Jonathan Chait, “How Trump Has Revived the Republican Cult of Manliness”, in NYMag, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2017. From the entry urtext
• Although some people lament the loss of flipping through CDs, or eight-tracks, or vinyls, there is a clear upside to dematerialization.2011, David Eagleman, Why the Net Matters, Canongate Books, →ISBN. From the entry vinyl
• Music unappreciation: A new book by Lawrence Kramer laments the dwindling enthusiasm for classical music and examines what could be lost.2007 July 2, Edward Rothstein, “Classical Music Imperiled: Can You Hear the Shrug?”, in New York Times. From the entry unappreciation
• The Court, it its interpretative role, can neither be pachydermic nor hyperactive when landlords, here and there lament about lost land.2005, T. Lajapathi Roy, Atrocities Against Dalits and Relevance of Land Reforms, page 42. From the entry pachydermic
• Sure, it's easy enough to post a "Didn't do anything today" lament or a "Don't feel like writing today" sigh.2004, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry blogorrhea
• Players often lament that "draw death" is killing the game.2002 December, Rene Chun, “Bobby Fischer’s Pathetic Endgame”, in The Atlantic. From the entry draw death
• “Neither a lament nor a dirge”: this seems odd.1998, Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish, Knopf, →ISBN, page 54, →ISBN. From the entry unlachrymose
• Of course these words are a lament and a dirge!1998, Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish, Knopf, →ISBN, page 54, →ISBN. From the entry unlachrymose
• 'The old trammans at Ballakoig were cut down, and the fairies came every night to weep and lament.'1976, Margaret Killip, The folklore of the Isle of Man, page 36. From the entry tramman
• Knyvett’s scanty resources, and soured by her laments!1920, Anthony Hope, Lucinda. From the entry ménage à trois
• They made up for the respect with which unconsciously they treated him by laughing at his foibles and lamenting his vices.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLV, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC. From the entry foible
• But the oaks' dirging melody no longer moaned for him; to-day she caught her own sad reflex in their shivering lament.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry dirging
• The words “love” and “rainbow” would disappear from his oxymorous hymn of love and hate, which would thus be reduced to a lament of hate.2000, Arnold Cassola, The Literature of Malta: An Example of Unity in Diversity, Minima, →ISBN, page 173. From the entry oxymorous
• Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.1988, Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor, page 55. From the entry cutter
• When Inanna returns she finds that Dumuzi has not been lamenting her but has been acting high and mighty in his seat of kingship.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry high and mighty
• Some people who go to trendy cafés lament getting stuck at the long central table that has to be shared, instead hoping they get a ‘private’ table.2024 July 22, Antone Martinho-Truswell, “Archived copy”, in Take a seat: the long table is an antidote to loneliness, archived from the…. From the entry trendy
• Smoking should only be done glamorously, at will readings or during multimillion-dollar jewellery heists, or wretchedly, in Paris, lamenting an extramarital bunk-up—so let’s have none of that.2023 January 28, Justin Myers, “62 dating green flags that shout ‘this one’s a keeper’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry bunk-up
• In her typical appearances on Fox News, Jeanine Pirro, a former Republican district attorney, reserves her highest dudgeon for castigating liberals and lamenting the demise of law and order.2020 May 30, Michael M. Grynbaum, Annie Karni, Jeremy W. Peters, “What Top Conservatives Are Saying About George Floyd and Police…. From the entry dudgeon
• Glazer echoes the lament of his friend and collaborator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for the Westway project, supposedly a victim of New York’s “regulatory and litigatory maze.”2007 June 3, Kevin Baker, “Modernist Times”, in New York Times. From the entry litigatory
• Meanwhile wives and even gray mothers — one on one side of the raised altar, the other on the other — lament, praying for protection from the deadly misfortunes.2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept. From the entry death-bearing
• The underattendance of boys at high schools was a cause of regular lament by all, including girl students who were left without escorts after school social functions.2002, Jane H. Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls, page 198. From the entry underattendance
• I lament that doing the trail in such a way means I often have little unhiked gaps to fill in, and that's what I'm doing on this day.2000 June, Backpacker, volume 28, number 187, page 147. From the entry unhiked
• Those inclined to lament golden ages long past might be inclined to put forth this distinguished musician’s latest gig as evidence of the lobotomization of musical theater in recent years.2007 September 2, Charles Isherwood, “Serious Conductor Answers the Call of the Roller Disco”, in New York Times. From the entry lobotomization
• Full of Coxon's trademark sarky lyricism, this 14-track concept album celebrates and laments the bittersweet nature of love, avoiding being dull or mawkish by being so gorgeous and satisfyingly coherent.2006 February 19, Nosheen Iqbal, “Graham Coxon, Love Travels at Illegal Speeds”, in The Observer. From the entry sarky

Meaning of lament

1. noun An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
2. noun A song expressing grief.
3. verb To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.

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Questions about lament in a sentence

How do you use lament in a sentence?

Lament is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.”

What is a short sentence with lament?

“Knyvett’s scanty resources, and soured by her laments!”

What does lament mean?

Lament means an expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.