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bemoaning

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verb

present participle of bemoan

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of bemoaning
Verb
Interestingly, neither will much of the left, which has spent decades bemoaning the social and environmental toll of cheap fashion. Felix Salmon, Axios, 18 Mar. 2025 No less an authority than Bogart’s 75-year-old son confirms the worst, bemoaning the fact that his dad has largely been forgotten by modern audiences. Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Mar. 2025 Yet, for all champion-elect Liverpool’s smoothness this season, the heady rise of underdogs Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest, and big shots like Manchester City falling, some are bemoaning the English top flight’s sense of predictability as the finish line nears. Henry Flynn, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 These factions would seem to be holiday rivals of a sort, like people who can’t get enough of all Christmas and the camp bemoaning its commercialism. Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025 Artificial intelligence was once again the talk of global leaders at Davos this year — but their sentiment was decidedly more mixed, with some eagerly anticipating the arrival of AI agents and others bemoaning that AI hasn't yet boosted their bottom lines. Ina Fried, Axios, 27 Jan. 2025 One of the neighborhood’s last wild tracts had just sold, a fact Dad was bemoaning. Will Bahr, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2025 No mater the result, both men will be hugely enriched and smiling, because, to those bemoaning what a farce this is, the joke’s on us. Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025 Saban retired, bemoaning all of the changes. Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bemoaning
Adjective
  • And every day, across from them, outside the clinic, about to enter or just leaving, there were women hugging each other and weeping.
    David Mamet, National Review, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The show manages to stay on the brink — always laughing, never quite weeping — for its entire length.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
Verb
  • Also, the episode opens with the introduction of Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby with a group of Fireflies, seemingly mourning the losses at the hospital where Joel murdered everyone to save Ellie.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The community is now mourning his loss.
    Jo Ciavaglia, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But by the summer of 2022, the couple started regretting their purchase.
    Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The top reasons for regretting an EV purchase were the lack of charging infrastructure, battery degradation, long charging times, and limited driving range, according to American Trucks.
    Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Unlike most of his hardcore predecessors, Yates has a knack for mournful melodies, and a voice that may remind some older listeners of Perry Farrell, from Jane’s Addiction.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 11 June 2025
  • Now comes their follow-up, with a soundalike title, but quite a different mood—more mournful, more anguished, more serious.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 May 2025
Verb
  • The song’s beat is produced by New York musician Cash Cobain, and features DDG melodically lamenting over visitation restrictions.
    DeMicia Inman, VIBE.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Rodriguez rejected the characterization given at the news conference, particularly a remark lamenting that the maximum punishment for the 13-year-old would be an eight-month stay at a boys’ ranch.
    Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Days before Father’s Day, the heartbroken dad of Dominic Ferrell, the 17-year-old stabbed to death in a Brickell condo, is speaking out to thank those supporting his family, to condemn the violent killing and to urge parents to hold their children close.
    Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 14 June 2025
  • He was booked into Metro Jail the night of June 1. 'Saddened and heartbroken': Attack rocks Boulder days after Israeli staffers slain Questions surround security protocols at the event The Saenger Theatre did not immediately respond to requests for comment on June 2.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • Maliciously or willfully disturbing a funeral, memorial service, procession or burial ceremony. Threatening, quarreling or challenging to fight someone, or fighting.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 16 June 2025
  • Visitation will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. local time at the Springhill Cemetery in Madison, Tenn., while the funeral mass will be held at St. Joseph Church.
    Rachel DeSantis, People.com, 8 June 2025
Adjective
  • But the two mainstays of the game are far from bitter rivals.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 June 2025
  • Pashinyan was the focus of protests last year by tens of thousands of demonstrators after Armenia agreed to hand over control of several border villages to Azerbaijan and to normalize relations between the neighbors and bitter rivals.
    Avet Demourian, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025

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