Example sentences for: lament

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

  • 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.

  • Godzilla held center stage in the "Movies and Television" thread until talk moved to science fiction and Star Trek , Babylon Five , Deep Space Nine , and Dune . One fraygrant's lament, "Why hasn't there been a good movie out in the first five months of 1998?"

  • How does Houellebecq reconcile his paeans to random sex with his lament over the world it leaves in its wake?

  • Talk to a Democratic pollster or consultant these days, and you're likely to hear a lament about the shortage of politically potent ideas.

  • Would he revel in or lament Gifford's two-year emasculation by humiliation from his wife because he had a one-night stand with a megamammaried miss?


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