Example sentences for: bemoaning

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

  • FEMA officials could be heard last week bemoaning the fact that people just keep moving back into the flood plains from which only a few years earlier they had been rescued, even as developers destroy more of the watershed that offered some natural protection.

  • Trust her that if you decide to do an end run around prom night you will not, decades from now, be bemoaning that fact.

  • This road-cum-boxing movie starring Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas is both trite and strange: On one hand it "knocks the Rocky tradition on its ear by giving us two boxers to root for in the same match" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), but despite this departure from convention, it manages to include "an assembly of ancient and familiar prizefight clichés" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Director Ron Shelton ( Bull Durham ) is a veteran of successful sports movies, but this one lacks the "off-the-wall larkiness" of his previous efforts (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film culminates in a gruesome fight between the two stars that leaves several critics bemoaning the confusion over whom to root for; others contend that the scene's emotional conflict works in its favor.

  • This bowdlerizing was the subject of extensive correspondence in the Guardian (London) bemoaning that the new edition had dropped the witty invention of earlier editions.

  • Newsweek runs a rant bemoaning the glitzification of the Hamptons.


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