How to Use deplore in a Sentence

deplore

verb
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  • Many people deplored the change.
  • We deplore the development of nuclear weapons.
  • Although deplored by many, her decisions have greatly benefited the company.
  • As with every year, there are things to cheer and things to deplore.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2017
  • And that no murder is to be deplored more than another.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 July 2023
  • In its brief opposing the unsealing of the redactions, Fox News deplores the volume.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Born in Washington, the son of two lawyers, Kavanaugh is in many ways a creature of the city Republicans like to deplore.
    — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
  • This caused people to choose up sides, or to deplore the choosing up of sides, and no amount of local TV coverage of choirs and service days could drown out the din.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The right fetishizes the country’s martial spirit and quiet endurance, while the left tends to deplore the suffering of soldiers in the field and civilians at home.
    — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Over the past few years, a steady stream of commentary has deplored the state of free speech and intellectual inquiry on campus.
    — Thomas Healy, The Atlantic, 18 June 2017
  • Still, there were moments of tension with critics who deplored Mr. Kissinger’s brand of realpolitik.
    — Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Campuses are becoming burned-over places, sullen about the scarcity of things to deplore and cancel within their gates.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Lawmaker Javier Lopez of Spain said the rescue boat’s arrival was a reason ‘‘to celebrate life’’ but deplored the mounting death toll in the Mediterranean.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2018
  • It is raised in political debates, downplayed by the descendants of slave traders and deplored by the descendants of slaves.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
  • In the early 20th century, The Times regularly tut-tutted over antisemitism abroad, and deplored the pogroms that the Russian czar waged.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And because the act of deploring parents’ media use is a nasty, centuries-old tradition.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Time, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Lisa Simpson deplored the tradition her father, Homer, loved.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Muslim leaders in Sweden deplored the incident but the strongest reactions were in the Middle East.
    — Karl Ritter and Jan M. Olsen, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • World leaders issued statements deploring the invasion and noting that a year of bloodshed and destruction had passed, with no end in sight.
    — Richard Pérez-Peña, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Some worshipers deplored Hamas’ targeting of civilians, but said the world had ignored Gaza’s sufferings.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Buddhists deplore the notion of suffering, and say no one is beyond redemption.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Some would deplore this as a rash act and one that seems reminiscent of throwing out the baby with the bathwater (an old saying, perhaps worth retiring).
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Both deplore the end of the Soviet Union, and both share a deep distrust of the West that is fueled by nonsensical conspiracy theories.
    — Susanne Sternthal, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
  • The applicant pool is a generation that has been raised to, at best, question America’s worth, and at worst, deplore its existence.
    — WSJ, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Hearing church leaders deplore violence but refuse to acknowledge that the people targeted were gay, Martin called for a bridge between the two groups.
    — Eve Tushnet, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • These measures have been deplored by liberals in the the U.S. Jewish community that Israel relies on for support.
    — Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg.com, 25 June 2017
  • But as residents of nearby villages saw their homes burn, the threat to the area stoked angry debate on social media, where people deplored the destruction of yet more pristine woodland.
    — Niki Kitsantonis, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Comedians have mocked him, and family members have deplored and condemned his views.
    — Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Brodesser-Akner’s astute character study seeks to understand its subject, not to deplore her, forgive her, or ridicule her.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2018
  • But Charlotte now deplores him and has taken over his Twitter account, tweeting weird nonsense that baffles his followers.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018

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