Example Sentences

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EXCLUSIVE: "Duck Dynasty" star Willie Robertson is lamenting the loss of his pal, ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, who died on Wednesday at the age of 72.

From Fox News • Jul. 30, 2021

Owner Jerry Jones is lamenting that the Cowboys didn’t pull it off.

From Washington Post • May 2, 2016

Nobody is lamenting that "The Wizard of Oz" received a best picture nomination for 1939, back in the era when the category numbered 10.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2015

Then, in the next breath, he is lamenting how his family is still fighting for their land, which was seized by the government in the early 1940s to make way for an airfield.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2014

By the "fashions and the changes and the disintegrations of Meiji" Hearn is lamenting that this process of modernization was destroying some of the good things in traditional Japanese culture.

From Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Hearn, Lafcadio