How to Use lament in a Sentence

lament

1 of 2 verb

• She lamented over the loss of her best friend.
• That’s where the ice loss that Dodd was lamenting comes in.
  — Cheryl Katz, National Geographic, 2 Dec. 2019
• Last week, Biden lamented the choice of the law’s name.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 14 Aug. 2023
• For Eastwood, the slim prospects of the wannabe-hero can merit lament.
  — John Semley, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
• Hurston laments: All these words from the seller, but not one word from the sold.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 10 May 2018
• On the track, the quartet lament how a lover only calls them on the weekends.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• Many lamented the high prices and the lack of healthy options.
  — Andrea Whittle, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2019
• Still, Lattin laments that there has to be a battle in the first place.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 8 Sep. 2017
• To seize the day, to lament, to mourn, to be nostalgic, to be proactive.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• Many cyclists at the 2023 ride lamented the end of the Classic.
  — oregonlive, 12 Sep. 2023
• One friend has lamented the loss of the recreation of the grand staircase at the start of the second act.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Lovullo was left to lament the way the fourth inning played out.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
• The judge, for his part, lamented all the medical tests.
  — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
• Riders no doubt lamented the end of an era — and the end of feeling the open breeze.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2018
• But rather than lament the headlines, the WHO welcomes them.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 1 June 2023
• In this case, the Sox lamented pivotal instances when the ball didn’t roll at all.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• One of the women lamented that her plans for a big fish fry that night were out the window.
  — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• There’s no reason to lament their absence in the budget.
  — Elise Amez-Droz, National Review, 6 Apr. 2022
• Polemicists lament that cursive is going the way of the dodo.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 12 July 2018
• The Padres last year relied on the home run but lamented their abundance of homers with no one on base.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 June 2018
• Saban lamented the sluggish start to the game but praised the response.
  — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• Most of us don’t think much about pants these days, except to lament having to put them on in the morning.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
• Cannon went on to lament the erosion of his image of the couple.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• All of them lament the burning of bars over the last summer, chief among them Handle.
  — Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
• Sweeney has spent the last few years of interviews lamenting about not yet, at the age of 26, being a mom.
  — Kara Kennedy, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Tribal members lament that stars are lost in the glare of flaring waste gas from wells.
  — Matthew Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2021
• Camp 1 includes those who lament the wuss-ification of the game.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• There goes that darned self-driving car again, a neighbor might lament.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
• Inside the observatory, a cafe sold hot sandwiches and other snacks, and one member of the fan group lamented the lack of great street tacos in Seoul.
  — Mark E. Potts, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• Some welcome the pressure to admit women as long overdue; others lament that doing so would forever change the character of the place.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024

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lament

2 of 2 noun

• The poem is a lament for a lost love.
• And in the present time this kind of lament is what prayer looks like.
  — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• There was great in Nate Carter, and much more to love than lament.
  — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022
• Listen to the laments from the COP28 conference in Dubai.
  — Llewellyn King, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Her casket was lowered to the strains of a lament from the queen’s bagpiper.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• That lament, that desire for change, is echoed again and again.
  — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2021
• The demise of the Oakland tailgate scene was a common lament.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• The answer to Grace Young's lament about losing the classics.
  — Francis Lam, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2021
• It’s both ode and lament for Los Angeles, and works like a kind of map of the city in words.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
• Mid-lament, RuPaul locks eyes with the future of drag, Chad.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2020
• The species' dismal status led Leopold to pen his lament for the future of cranes.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2022
• On the day of the queen’s state funeral in September, a lone piper played a lament on the deck.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• Her mouth, open in a lament or siren song, has the red lips of one of de Kooning’s women.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Hawke, who is a second cousin of Williams, rode the elegiac rhythms of the play’s gorgeous lament.
  — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• In France, though, many lament that the far right has been all but normalized.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
• Few ordinary young Saudis lament—and many cheer—the woes of the old elites.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2017
• This is a lament over what has become — of big-league baseball.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• This sure reads like a lament over remaining in the Frozen Wasteland.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• Some of you will suggest that is the typical old man’s lament.
  — Dallas News, 6 June 2022
• Duggan, who owns the D.C. bar Madam’s Organ, laughs now at the wryness and lack of lament in those texts.
  — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
• Come on, the lament goes, show some compassion and common sense.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• The trio shared similar laments, going back to a loss against Georgia on the road.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | , al, 8 Mar. 2023
• Wonder’s lament is the wrong song when the politics of hatred rule.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
• Like many great breakup songs, this one is both a lament and an indictment.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
• Experts and members of Congress lament that far more needs to be done.
  — David Lightman, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• As with many laments of cultural decline, the charge is most often levied by the old against the young.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
• And the three liberals combined on a 60-page lament on the overruling of Roe.
  — Robert Barnes, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2022
• This was previously on the schedule for last year, and postponed, to the lament of many.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Feb. 2022
• This lament is best delivered in a single dose; one scene generally does the trick.
  — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• As a dig at generational dissatisfaction and/or a lament about the migrant’s blues, the film is good enough.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024