In a sentence
Six example sentences with lament, each labelled with its topic.
In the final chapter the widow laments the sale of the orchard her family had worked for six generations.
Literature
The song laments a harbour town emptied by the closing of its shipyard, and the fiddle carries the refrain.
Music
Chroniclers lamented the burning of the library for centuries afterward, listing by name the works nobody could replace.
History
Fans still lament the trade that sent their point guard west, and the arena falls quiet whenever his highlights play.
Basketball
Naturalists lament the draining of the marsh, which once held more nesting birds than the rest of the county combined.
Environment
Critics lamented the demolition of the old station for decades, and photographs of its iron vault still circulate.
Architecture
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