Example Sentences

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Local athletes, tired of snarky comments from competitors, have bemoaned the name for years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Many on Wall Street have bemoaned Apple’s lack of a concrete artificial-intelligence strategy — especially relative to its “Magnificent Seven” peers, who are forecasting record sums for capital expenditures.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

The missed deadline comes as Saks continues to draw frustration from its vendors, who have bemoaned months-long payment delays and many of whom have halted shipments of their products.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Commenters across a variety of forums have bemoaned Quora’s downgrade in quality, and the Atlantic recently asked, “If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora?”

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2024

Others have bemoaned that those frequent Excise excursions led the poet into temptation, that he was being continually assailed by the sin that so easily beset him.

From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Setoun, Gabriel