laments in English

noun
1
a passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
his mother's night-long laments for his father
verb
1
mourn (a person's loss or death).
he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter
synonyms:mourngrievesorrowwailweepcrysobkeenbeat one's breast

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1. Cable laments his loss.

2. Beweeper ( plural Beweepers ) ( rare) One who beweeps or laments someone or something

3. “Old-timers have been virtually banished from the media business,” he laments.

4. “We are educating people for the wrong futures,” laments the Futurist report.

5. Adversaria celebrates the rough beauty of ordinary life and laments its inevitable decline

6. Synonyms for Bewails include laments, deplores, bemoans, mourns, rues, regrets, grieves, moans, wails and repents

7. If I had known the rebates were going , I would have invested elsewhere , " she laments .

8. All Things Pakistan laments the huge amount of food that is wasted during weddings.

9. The first four are laments, or dirges; the fifth is a petition, or prayer.

10. 28 The Washington Post laments that the middle - class dream is eluding African - Americans .

11. Those who survived the war “were suddenly abyssed into a vacuum,” laments Sakon Sou, a Japanese poet.

12. With prize money declining, he laments that most of the time jump jockeys risk their necks for £

13. Mr Furlong laments : These are people with whom it is hard to have a constructive conversation.

14. “I just can’t believe that there is nothing after death,” she laments, “but I am not sure.”

15. According to Mike Nied of Idolator, the singer "laments her ability to find true companionship over acoustic strings".

16. Roberts moves from edgy soprano-sax Atonalisms to Coltranesque laments on the opener, develops her alto-sax variations from low purrs to …

17. For example, a 20-year-old girl laments: “My father doesn’t know about anything going on in my life anymore.

18. The expanded kitchen seems to occupy a good third of the living space, but Franken laments it could be larger.

19. Rihanna sings (also later raps) in response to Wale’s laments about a difficult relationship and praises of hot sex on the "bed, floor, couch, more."

20. Humphys' book laments the growth of "cliched, dumbed-down, inflated and bogus management-speak" which he says now passes for English.

21. Here, in this world of ours, the Easter alleluia still contrasts with the cries and laments that arise from so many painful situations: deprivation, hunger, disease, war, violence.

22. “The traffic, the honking and the smog makes my trip very tiring,” Thuy laments. She adds that “the city’s population is increasing so fast, but the infrastructure has not improved.”

23. 'Bemoans' is a 7 letter word starting with B and ending with S Crossword clues for 'Bemoans' Synonyms, crossword answers and other related words for Bemoans [laments] We hope that the …

24. The first sentence in bold letter laments that it is not the medical professionals, but the finance ministry who is making a judgement call on how to understand acne – not as a serious skin condition, but as a beauty-related inconvenience.

25. Synonym of Arctophile 1969, Jack Olsen, “Prologue”, in Night of the Grizzlies, Signet, published 1971, page 23: When a rogue grizzly must be exterminated by government officials, the laments of these new ursophiles continue for months, and letters to the editor run four or five to one in condemnation of the exterminators

26. At the end of the book, the narrator, returned to England, laments the passing of it all: But I have seen it: the colours of western Blazonry burning under the bright sun, castles of shimmering white marble, the Latin chant in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Satines, columns erected by the wise men of old and the soaring domes of the cunning Grifons.