bemoan

Example Sentences

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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

Around the same time Andrew appeared to bemoan life in damp Britain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

And in several anonymized survey responses shared exclusively with Salon, parents didn’t bemoan their offspring as being anything close to lazy or entitled.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025

Bivol did not bemoan a first career loss four months ago - which many felt he won, and vowed to do better.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 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