Example sentences for: deplores

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

  • In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.

  • The editorial deplores the resignation of a white Washington, D.C., mayoral aide for uttering the word "niggardly" in a financial management meeting.

  • A piece pegged to the Ken Starr investigation deplores the law's increasing indifference to privacy.

  • This week's cover deplores adult premarital sex, saying that it leads to abortion, weaker marriages, and STDs.

  • The cover editorial deplores America's habit of legislating by lawsuits instead of laws.


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