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bewailing

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verb

present participle of bewail

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bewailing
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
Adjective
  • The slow, mournful piano chords capture the somber bite of the scene with remarkable punch yet also a sobering stillness, and that’s before the elegiac words carry the song off into the sky.
    Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 8 May 2025
  • Wynette’s mournful lyrics about a partner who has left—will one protagonist leave the other during the game’s main campaign?—to the sound of lonely, sad acoustic country music is the flip side of Wang Chung’s carefree spirit.
    Brady Gerber, Vulture, 7 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
  • Stacy Melo, an east Arlington resident, told the City Council that she was left heartbroken and shocked the last time TotalEnergies came before council.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2025
  • After everyone left, her husband apologized for his mother’s absence and thanked her for her hard work, but the experience left her heartbroken.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Mourners pay respects to Pope Francis ahead of funeral Mourners from around the world pay their respects to Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
    Eryk Michael Smith, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • For me, even in funeral masses of family and friends, that's the most powerful moment.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, Levi isn’t bitter and blames the reporter for trying to use Gunn to publicly shame him.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 22 May 2025
  • Where Silverman radically departs from Strindberg’s bitter play is in their portrait of Tekla, who is a spikily delightful self-starter instead of the idiot-monster of the original.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 22 May 2025
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“Bewailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bewailing. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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