deploring

Example Sentences

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Americans, in the meantime, kept poking at nominally Spanish California from the sea and overland, looking for weak points and deploring what they and Europeans thought were wasted possibilities in California’s under-exploited amenities.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025

He is liberal of politics, deploring of racism and excruciatingly aware of himself as an outsider.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry later issued a statement calling Paludan an “Islam-hating charlatan” and deploring the fact that he was allowed to stage the demonstration.

From Washington Times • Jan. 27, 2023

The flooding was an example of "what we have been deploring for some time," he said, adding that those countries which were responsible for pollution should do more to help those which are suffering.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2022

He released sincere public statements deploring the shooting and condemning it as evil.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow