BEMOAN in a Sentence

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1. I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children.
2. President Barack Obama bemoaned low voter turnout as a contributing factor to Washington's dysfunction.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEMOAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bemoan
 v.  regret strongly; express disapproval of
Classic Sentence:
1  and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
2  And the birds of the air came too, and bemoaned Snowdrop; and first of all came an owl, and then a raven, and at last a dove, and sat by her side.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SNOWDROP
3  I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
4  Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law, and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
Example Sentence:
1  Although critics bemoan the serious flaws in the author's novels, each year his latest book tops the best-seller list.
2  President Barack Obama bemoaned low voter turnout as a contributing factor to Washington's dysfunction.