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
It’s a muddled if on-brand addendum, a tarnished curio, a not-bad epilogue and, intentionally or not, a lament for the film industry that used to be.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023
His seventh symphony received its premiere at a Wagner memorial concert in December 1884, its second movement, Adagio, being in the form of a funeral lament for Wagner.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
