lamented; lamenting; laments
: to mourn aloud : wail
nightingales lament without ceasing—
L. P. Smith
L. P. Smith1
: to express sorrow, mourning, or regret for often demonstratively : mourn
… must regret the imprudence, lament the result …—Jane Austen
Jane Austen2
: to regret strongly
He lamented his decision not to go to college.
Examples of lament in a Sentence
Verb
She lamented over the loss of her best friend.
“I've lost my best friend!” she lamented.
Noun
The poem is a lament for a lost love.
the national lament that was heard when the beloved singer perished in the crash
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Ann Rutledge, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
In a new interview with the U.K.’s The Sunday Times, Russo lamented that popular films’ success at the box office and disproportional losses at the Academy Awards is due to a trend started by the disgraced mogul.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025
Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
Because, as one of them laments, who else can a spy really date?
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Others lament that young people will lose the chance to build up fluid mental math skills while playing: develop number sense, compute sums and products, budget, compare value, think strategically or reason using simple probability.
—Ann Rutledge, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
In a new interview with the U.K.’s The Sunday Times, Russo lamented that popular films’ success at the box office and disproportional losses at the Academy Awards is due to a trend started by the disgraced mogul.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
Unwittingly, the whole exchange echoes Mullins’ lament in Lioness about the media telling us what to believe.
—Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
Because, as one of them laments, who else can a spy really date?
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for lament
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“Lament.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lament. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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