bemoaning

Example Sentences

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A father who lives next to a golf course is bemoaning the number of wayward balls that hit his home and says a child could end up in a coma if they were hit.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

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

From Slate • May 10, 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

There was nothing thriving, either, in the Voorstad neighborhood of Deventer, in the Netherlands, where in 2013 two bummed-out middle-aged men were sitting on their stoops, bemoaning the dreariness around them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

He was bemoaning the shortage of Celestial bronze when Festus began to whir and squeak.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan