How to Use bemoan in a Sentence

bemoan

verb
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  • He bemoans the fact that the team lost again.
  • Some critics are always bemoaning the state of the language.
  • Ivey bemoaned the low bond amounts, noting they are set by the state.
    — Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 11 Apr. 2023
  • At the time, a critic for The Nation bemoaned how such a size dwarfed the acoustics.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Enjoy a win or bemoan a loss for one day, then move on to what’s next.
    — Jeremy Price, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Others bemoan the loss of youth sports and long for the day our kids can play soccer again.
    — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Or the Giants and Mets will bemoan the loss of a true franchise player.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • And fast-food lovers bemoan steep prices for a Big Mac combo.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • While some people love the daylight at the end of the day as the weather warms, others bemoan the loss of an hour's sleep.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Gordy used to bemoan his mediocre dancing because the good dancers seemed to get the girls.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • For once, a bat mitzvah wasn’t something to be mocked, or eye-rolled, or bemoaned.
    — Jonah Platt, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • There also have been a flood of queries to experts, who bemoan the killing of helpful bees, wasps, and hornets.
    — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Since Donald Trump won the election in 2016, Democrats have bemoaned the end of democracy.
    — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Children bemoan the end of their leisurely holidays and trudge back to the classroom.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2020
  • It’s a common parlor game to bemoan our perilous state of local media in the States.
    — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Some bemoan the fact that few high school seniors understand that slavery was the central cause of the Civil War.
    — Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • As in a game when the Heat were left to bemoan a defense that looked nothing like the whirlwind that helped lift them to the conference’s best record last season.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But plenty of commenters also bemoan about the lack of windows.
    — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Peltz and Perlmutter have bemoaned the pricey purchase.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Hanslick was within his rights to bemoan a surfeit of blaring brass and of cymbal crashes.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Now forced to make regular stops in the G League, Moody prefers to think big picture rather than bemoan his circumstances.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Rather than bemoan the lack of responsiveness, the group sought their own solution.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Studies still bemoan how U.S. children lag in math and science.
    — Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2022
  • Many, particularly on the right, bemoan the U.S. trade deficit and the supposedly terrible trade deals that the U.S. has agreed to over the years.
    — John Gustavsson, National Review, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Many rap fans took to social media to bemoan the rise of reactionary figures in rap media.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Blue complains about the dish’s saltiness, bemoans the lack of vegetables and picks apart Tyler’s overcooked egg — all before even meeting the guy.
    — Jess Eng, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Karen, a middle-aged man with a face deeply lined with resilience and pain, recalls a combative past and bemoans a chaotic present.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Kyle Haines, the Giants’ farm director, bemoaned the spotlight put on teenagers who need time to develop.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Although the church has bemoaned being linked to the trial, that has not stopped its members from playing a part in the case and its media coverage.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Singer Halsey publicly bemoaned her label for blocking her release of new tracks.
    — WIRED, 28 June 2023

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