How to Use deplore in a Sentence

deplore

verb
  • Many people deplored the change.
  • We deplore the development of nuclear weapons.
  • Although deplored by many, her decisions have greatly benefited the company.
  • As with every year, there are things to cheer and things to deplore.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Each of these societies deplored and ridiculed the other.
    — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • More accurate were the settlers themselves, who deplored this painful tragedy of their commons.
    — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • And because the act of deploring parents’ media use is a nasty, centuries-old tradition.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Time, 29 Jan. 2018
  • For Nietzsche, this shift was almost entirely to be deplored.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Over the past few years, a steady stream of commentary has deplored the state of free speech and intellectual inquiry on campus.
    — Thomas Healy, The Atlantic, 18 June 2017
  • Buddhists deplore the notion of suffering, and say no one is beyond redemption.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But Goldsworthy deplores the city dweller’s notion of the countryside as a picturesque escape.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Comedians have mocked him, and family members have deplored and condemned his views.
    — Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2023
  • China strongly deplores and firmly opposes the move.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Francis has repeatedly deplored the death and destruction in the Gaza war.
    — Alvise Armellini, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
  • The movie doesn’t show that his death led to an outpouring of on-line protest, deploring his silencing and demanding freedom of speech.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Lisa Simpson deplored the tradition her father, Homer, loved.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • It is raised in political debates, downplayed by the descendants of slave traders and deplored by the descendants of slaves.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
  • In its brief opposing the unsealing of the redactions, Fox News deplores the volume.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The right fetishizes the country’s martial spirit and quiet endurance, while the left tends to deplore the suffering of soldiers in the field and civilians at home.
    — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • World leaders issued statements deploring the invasion and noting that a year of bloodshed and destruction had passed, with no end in sight.
    — Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Shohei Ohtani would reject it and the Angels would never do it, not to mention the fans, who would absolutely deplore it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Some would deplore this as a rash act and one that seems reminiscent of throwing out the baby with the bathwater (an old saying, perhaps worth retiring).
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • This caused people to choose up sides, or to deplore the choosing up of sides, and no amount of local TV coverage of choirs and service days could drown out the din.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 Jan. 2017
  • Some worshipers deplored Hamas’ targeting of civilians, but said the world had ignored Gaza’s sufferings.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Born in Washington, the son of two lawyers, Kavanaugh is in many ways a creature of the city Republicans like to deplore.
    — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
  • Brodesser-Akner’s astute character study seeks to understand its subject, not to deplore her, forgive her, or ridicule her.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The applicant pool is a generation that has been raised to, at best, question America’s worth, and at worst, deplore its existence.
    — WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • But Charlotte now deplores him and has taken over his Twitter account, tweeting weird nonsense that baffles his followers.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Hearing church leaders deplore violence but refuse to acknowledge that the people targeted were gay, Martin called for a bridge between the two groups.
    — Eve Tushnet, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • But as residents of nearby villages saw their homes burn, the threat to the area stoked angry debate on social media, where people deplored the destruction of yet more pristine woodland.
    — Niki Kitsantonis, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023

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