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Example sentences for: lament

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A frequent lament by columnists from that era was that the United States wasn't like France or Britain, where politicians' sex lives were considered their own business.
Le Monde of Paris led its Sunday-Monday edition with a lament about "European impotence" in relation to the Russian onslaught on Chechnya.
Any more pedantic suggestion being absent, I take the bit between the teeth to suggest that the above word, characterized by the OED as an “onomatopoeic representation of unmeaning chatter,” may well be a jocular rendering of Latin Flebiliter gemens , itself an almost facetious lament meaning something like `Woe is me!
For myself, I have not ceased to lament that one-vote decision.
The worst part about the sea, as Ramanathan and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography must both lament when it comes time for their annual talent show, is that nothing amusing ever takes place beneath it.