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Example sentences for: lamented

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When Dorothy Parker lamented that "I hate writing, but I love having written," she was expressing the sort of routine tradeoff between current costs and future benefits that fits right into the traditional economic framework.
I am roughly familiar with researches into this semantic by old friends, like John Groome of Grenada or Frank Collymore of Barbados, but find use of the living language hereabouts best shown in the work of the late and much lamented Shiva Naipaul, younger brother of V.S. (who declines to use his knighthood).
When André Gide revealed that Oscar Wilde had had sexual relations with a young Arab boy in Egypt, Wilde's friend Robert Sherard lamented: “Heavens!
"I wish he would stay," Bauer lamented.
Suffice it to say that when Carey rewrites Dickens' ending--Maggs, unlike the late lamented Magwitch, does not die a miserable death--it is a perfectly delightful solution.