Example sentences for: laments

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

  • An article laments the practice of liberating Sudanese slaves by buying their freedom.

  • As one harried frequent flyer laments, "If the airplane hits a bump, you have all the salt on the wrong spot."

  • "Hardly a week passes without a public figure in Britain, Germany, or the United States hailing the coming of the Third Way," laments Tony Judt in an NYT piece.

  • "low" and behold : William Safire laments the end of an era in his "On Language" column in the NYT Magazine . In the latest edition of the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage , the guide for writers and editors of the lauded paper, the capital letter has been taken down a peg.

  • ( Slate 's "" laments the decline of genuine American bohemians.)


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