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US
/ɫəˈmɛntɪŋ/
]
[ UK /lɐmˈɛntɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /lɐmˈɛntɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
lamenting sinners
the wailing wind
wailful bagpipes
tangle her desires with wailful sonnets
wailing mourners
How To Use lamenting In A Sentence
- Very beautiful, likewise, are the Maries that he made on the altar-dossal, lamenting the Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
- A witty wigmaker adopted the sign of Absolom hanging to a tree, with King David lamenting at a distance, who was represented with a label issuing from his mouth, containing these words -- Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
- His gang leader, whose only genuine motivation in the film seems to be revenge for his murdered father, is heard at the close eulogizing the street gangs and lamenting that ‘No one will even know we were here.’
- Now, in response to all of those lamenting the loss of a downstater on the ticket, let's run through a list of downstate Democrats who actually would have been good candidates: This just in... Giannoulias to announce Sunday
- lamenting sinners
- Thus we were stumbling on, very weary, very hungry, the man with the want in a constant wail, and Sonachan lamenting for suppers he had been saucy over in days of rowth and plenty, when a light oozed out of the grey-dark ahead of us, in the last place in the world one would look for any such sign of humanity. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- I recall, in my time here as a whip, which was some time ago, listening to him lamenting how members in the House had lost the ability to orate with skill.
- Smith circles his themes with the obsessive dolor of a man lamenting a lost opportunity, spawning gorgeous, tangential what-ifs and could've beens.
- If, finally, you see him lamenting, complaining, unhappy, call him a slave though he wears a praetexta. The Discourses of Epictetus
- Lamenting that environmental pollution had increased manifold, he said that farmers there were still using some of the weedicides that were banned in other countries.