Example Sentences

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Wilsonians bewailed Mr. Trump’s disregard for Venezuela’s democratic opposition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

Damon Wise of Deadline also noted that Depp's role is "suspiciously light on dialogue" but bewailed the lack of passion on screen.

From BBC • May 17, 2023

A recent flurry of news articles bewailed our great American backwardness in wine drinking, quoting one of those dodgy market research surveys that seemed to be all over the map.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022

Writing in 1934, he bewailed L.A.’s air as having “a kind of treacherous unbrightness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2022

Colonel Cathcart bewailed the miserable fate that had given him for an invaluable assistant someone as common as Colonel Korn.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller