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Example sentences for: lament

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We nod to the idea of value-subtraction whenever we fall back on Horace's phrase about "laboring to bring forth a mouse," or lament the forests felled to make possible a terrible book, or recollect an experience of working by committee.
Le Monde of Paris led its Sunday-Monday edition with a lament about "European impotence" in relation to the Russian onslaught on Chechnya.
Hence John Skelton's early 16th-century poem Phyllyp Sparowe , a lament by a young lady for her pet sparrow killed by a cat, with the affecting lines: Nothynge it auayled/To call Phylyp agayne,/Whom Gyb our cat hath slayne.
But then you chide me that the "painfully obvious answer" to my lament is that these changes won't come "if that kind of restriction violates the First Amendment."
Read your lament about Derrick Thomas, the Kansas City linebacker who was left paralyzed yesterday in a car accident, and I felt the same pang you did when I saw the news this morning that he'd been hurt.