Example sentences for: bemoaned

How can you use “bemoaned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Getting a federal government’s priorities in proper perspective, one member of parliament bemoaned the cultural center as “50 years ahead of its time — that’s how long it’ll take the taxpayers to meet the 500 percent cost overrun.”

  • Since then, as bien-pensant American opinion has embraced the "peace process," Said has bemoaned Arafat's "capitulation" and grown increasingly disgusted with the chairman's dictatorial rule over a few scraps of occupied territory and with Israel's continued expropriation of Palestinian lands.

  • The media bemoaned the vulnerability of illegal immigrants (trapped by their fear that outsiders will discover they're illegal) and congratulated Mayor Rudy Giuliani for rescuing the New York slaves.

  • Editorialists bemoaned the fall of an idol (see


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