laments

Example Sentences

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Laments about not playing complete 60-minute games became more frequent last season.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

Laments Hayes-Williams: “How can you celebrate somebody else’s history and not your own?”

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2020

Laments curator Michael Vice: "We have a major failing of the infrastructure, and we can only respond to crises."

From US News • Aug. 19, 2016

Laments came from every pulpit in the Union as preachers from all over America paid their respects to the fallen president.

From Newsweek • Apr. 12, 2015

The sad, sweet voice of some wood-spirit who Laments while watching a loved oak tree die, From the deep forest comes the wood-dove's coo.

From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius