How to Use lament in a Sentence

lament

1 of 2 verb
  • She lamented over the loss of her best friend.
  • Most lamented the state’s lax gun laws.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
  • For those lamenting the snow, don’t fret for too long.
    — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 4 May 2026
  • So, for those lamenting the lost draft picks, get over it.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Belly laments to Jere over the phone.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Come revel in your good choices and lament the bad ones!
    — Justin Segrest, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Many lamented the high prices and the lack of healthy options.
    — Andrea Whittle, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2019
  • Lovullo was left to lament the way the fourth inning played out.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2022
  • There goes that darned self-driving car again, a neighbor might lament.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
  • There was more to lament in the aftermath of a tight contest.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Artists have always lamented this.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Colton laments that his camel wandered away from Becca’s camel.
    — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 26 June 2018
  • Critics have lamented the lack of breakout hits this year.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But this wasn’t a dinner group that sat around lamenting the status quo.
    — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 9 May 2018
  • Still, Lattin laments that there has to be a battle in the first place.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 8 Sep. 2017
  • On the track, the quartet lament how a lover only calls them on the weekends.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Walsh said, while also lamenting his own racist statements in the past.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2019
  • For Eastwood, the slim prospects of the wannabe-hero can merit lament.
    — John Semley, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Of course, there are financial reasons to lament this loss, as well.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 8 July 2020
  • Tribal members lament that stars are lost in the glare of flaring waste gas from wells.
    — Matthew Brown, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2021
  • Riders no doubt lamented the end of an era — and the end of feeling the open breeze.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 7 July 2018
  • To seize the day, to lament, to mourn, to be nostalgic, to be proactive.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • One of the women lamented that her plans for a big fish fry that night were out the window.
    — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Camp 1 includes those who lament the wuss-ification of the game.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Cannon went on to lament the erosion of his image of the couple.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Many longtime soccer fans lamented the breaks.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • Polemicists lament that cursive is going the way of the dodo.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 12 July 2018
  • Saban lamented the sluggish start to the game but praised the response.
    — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Most of us don’t think much about pants these days, except to lament having to put them on in the morning.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The Penguins were left to lament the penalty calls — and the lengthy delay.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026

lament

2 of 2 noun
  • The poem is a lament for a lost love.
  • The song is this hopeful lament.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
  • And in the present time this kind of lament is what prayer looks like.
    — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • That lament, that desire for change, is echoed again and again.
    — Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2021
  • The changes are a source of both lament and ambivalence.
    — Naomi Jackson, Curbed, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This is a lament over what has become — of big-league baseball.
    — Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
  • There was great in Nate Carter, and much more to love than lament.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Like many great breakup songs, this one is both a lament and an indictment.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • His one big lament was missing a 4-foot birdie putt on the final hole.
    — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
  • Some of you will suggest that is the typical old man’s lament.
    — Dallas News, 6 June 2022
  • Her only lament was that the formula didn’t help tame her frizz.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Her casket was lowered to the strains of a lament from the queen’s bagpiper.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • That’s a lament, not criticism of Oprah.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Come on, the lament goes, show some compassion and common sense.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Her film is stubborn and pure; her soothing voice is a lament threaded with steel.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
  • In France, though, many lament that the far right has been all but normalized.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • His wife is on him to tone it down, plus free-throw groaning and rebound laments are pretty tame.
    — Carolyn Hax, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2018
  • Experts and members of Congress lament that far more needs to be done.
    — David Lightman, SFChronicle.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The demise of the Oakland tailgate scene was a common lament.
    — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The poem ends with the hero’s burial and the laments of his followers.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Her mouth, open in a lament or siren song, has the red lips of one of de Kooning’s women.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Wonder’s lament is the wrong song when the politics of hatred rule.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Few ordinary young Saudis lament—and many cheer—the woes of the old elites.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2017
  • The species' dismal status led Leopold to pen his lament for the future of cranes.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2022
  • As with many laments of cultural decline, the charge is most often levied by the old against the young.
    — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
  • Beristain’s lament may sound like a song of the past, but eight years later, that rhythm is returning.
    — Lluvia Gaucin, IndyStar, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There is an undertone of lament to a lot of the violent action.
    — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2021
  • This tribute to the living was also an elegy, a lament for the dead.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • The tabloids reported on it with a mix of smug derision and hollow lament.
    — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
  • Hawke, who is a second cousin of Williams, rode the elegiac rhythms of the play’s gorgeous lament.
    — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020

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