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Example sentences for: lamenting

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--Adam Smith, in a letter to a friend who, after the battle of Saratoga, was lamenting that the revolt of the colonies was going to ruin Britain, late 18 th century
In his "" lamenting Matt Groening's absence from the Comic Journal 's Top 100 list, A.O.
The Manhattan Institute Forum sounds a bit like the high-and-mighty intellectuals lamenting their loss of authority over the masses.
How else to explain two recent articles in the New York Times and the New York Observer lamenting the decline of editorial integrity in American magazines?
And an officer who has been stuck on may well be heard lamenting that It's all gone pearshaped --which is what happens when anything that should have a fine, firm shape sags, with all the stuffing leaking down into the bottom and flopping outwards.