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Example sentences for: lament

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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.
Looking back on '97, critics lament the ubiquity of disaster movies, mindless screenplays, and actor Robin Williams, who, Time magazine says, is waging "a campaign to suck our affection for him to its marrow."
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."
Maren reports the lament of his friend Chris Cassidy, a CARE worker who nearly went mad trying to teach Somali refugees to adopt irrigated cash-crop farming: "How the hell am I going to convince these people to get out there and dig if they get more food than they can eat free from CARE?"
"A Classic Rock Fan's Lament"