lament for
Example Sentences
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Much of his writing is a lament for the passing of old-time ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Chelsea's fans mirrored the mood of dysfunction and crisis hanging over the club by opening this dramatic FA Cup night at Villa Park with a loud lament for lost owner Roman Abramovich.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2024
He offers a lament for an Indigenous people historically persecuted in their own land.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
Really, you could almost make of Orange County’s unfortunate geography some version of long-ago Mexican President Porfirio Diaz’s lament for his own country: “So far from God, so close to the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022
He says that this seems to be a poem about England but it is a lament for the poet’s native land, our own native land, Ireland.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
