Examples of lamentation in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web After Friday night’s vote, there was much celebration and lamentation, from the competing sides. — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Nov. 2021 The voice: a low, guttural rasp, it’s the aural equivalent of slithering, the wheezy lamentation of a leprechaun long past his sell-by date. — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022 Vang’s lyrical interventions strike powerful notes of lamentation and rage, yet most effective are her visual collage-poems, which use fragmentation to interrogate the inhumanity of the official account. — The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021 The epic ends with a trio of women’s voices—those of Hector’s wife, his mother, and Helen of Troy—lifted in lamentation. — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021 Petraeus, a military man steeped in Civil War history, also opined on former President Trump's lamentation over the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee. — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2021 Consider this an elegy for Roe vs. Wade, a lamentation for the impending death of a law that has enabled millions of American women over the past half-century to control their bodies, their economic lives, their personal fates. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021 The ululation at the beginning gives way to the spoken word feel of the rapping and a dirge-like lamentation sequence, all against the steady beat of the parai drums. — Siva Sithraputhran, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2021 Not until the work's third movement did Ferree's instrument step forward to sing out its own lamentation. — Rob Hubbard, Star Tribune, 22 Mar. 2021 See More

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