bemoan

Purists bemoan some of the recent renovations to bring it up to World Cup standards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Today, however, we come not to bemoan the bad times but celebrate the good times, for the Angels and Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Arsenal, for instance, used to bemoan its trips to Stoke City, a scrappy, physical team that made set pieces its bread and butter, because it had no hope of winning otherwise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

He is not the type to bemoan his lot publicly.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025

You won’t have anything else here.” and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

He approves of strengthening some local restrictions but bemoans the "terrible cost" and wonders "for HOW LONG?"

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025

Glenn Whipp bemoans the unlikelihood of Daniel Craig earning an acting nod as sly sleuth Benoit Blanc.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

Wall Street bemoans Mamdani’s win, Trump threatens Jay Powell again, and the Bezos-Sanchez wedding is flashy and splashy.

From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2025

She bemoans that she had to pay for her interpreter to manage treatment.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2025

He falls; he fills the house with heavy groans, Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

A young lawyer bemoaned his strained finances: “It’s not that I came from wealth; it’s just that I thought by the time I was 36 I’d easily be buying a second home, having a car.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Tottenham's then-head coach Thomas Frank bemoaned the automatic three-match ban, but the club decided against appealing, believing they had no chance of success.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Her colleagues’ execution of Sosa, she bemoaned, “marks yet another low point in this court’s esteem for its precedents.”

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Chan bemoaned the government's slowness to act, citing that Taiwan's machines must offer a "guaranteed prize" if a certain amount of money is spent.

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

As Calixte had bemoaned, most of the theories were martial ones, involving conquest, weapons, and defense.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

"There is no point in bemoaning what is going on" one says phlegmatically, "Andy Burnham's inherited this vexed issue that our jails are full, it's in the nature of being PM."

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

In a video, Dr. Becky marks Employee Appreciation Week by bemoaning how uncelebrated parents’ wins often are.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

But she wishes some of those fans had been shopping at her stores on a monthly or quarterly basis in recent years rather than now bemoaning what’s been lost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

"The Olympics only happen every four years and only a very few times in a career," he said, bemoaning the lack of "Olympic atmosphere" in Bormio.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

The transformation of the Khumbu culture is certainly not all for the best, but I didn’t hear many Sherpas bemoaning the changes.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer