lament for
Example Sentences
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Listen to DtMF: A lament for the loved ones he's lost, the album's title track translates as, "I should have taken more photos".
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
And while “Marce Catlett” is in many ways a lament for an “oldfangled” lifestyle that now persists only in stories, it arrives at another of this author’s favorite words.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
He offers a lament for an Indigenous people historically persecuted in their own land.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
In a lament for Bookforum’s earlier closure, former Times books editor and Bookforum contributor David L. Ulin called the journal “edgy, opinionated, willing to be provocative” and a reminder that “literature is a collective soul.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2023
She, being the nearest woman relative, raised a formal lament for the dead of the family.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
