bewailing

Example Sentences

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A mocking cartoon showed a distraught Johnson with a hand over his face bewailing “the scurrilous attacks on the Mother of my Children.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2021

Fishermen bewailing empty nets made by their own hand, just as their fathers and their grandfathers did, all the way back to the time of Jesus before he bade them to become fishers of men.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 23, 2016

Bai had attempted to be a Samson bewailing blindness in hammy operatic fashion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2016

A BBC programme on the topic by Andrew Neil on Tuesday revealed a cast of gloom-laden defence pundits bewailing Britain’s “loss of influence” if Scotland were “lost” and Faslane closed.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2014

Their ghosts were rumored to walk the halls at night, bewailing their fate and complaining about the food in the Mess.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss