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Meanings of lament in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "wail"
Examples for "wail"
1
Told that journalists didn't consider it news, he would wail, Why not?
2
The lost float up in shadowy forms, and wail in whispered despair.
3
A woman's heart throbbed in the lilt and broke in the wail.
4
Fitfully the words came on the wind, in an almost heart-breaking wail:
5
For a second, Willy heard the ghostly wail of her daughter's voice.
1
Then he fell-inthe gutter; and there was general sorrow and lamentation.
2
The lamentation of the people of God in their captivity in Babylon.
3
Weeping and moaning and lamentation was the principal order of the occasion.
4
In the castle of the Greylocks, meanwhile, there was sorrow and lamentation.
5
Whilst the prince made this lamentation, the Queen came before the King.
1
And hear the plaint of John Winthrop to his father in 1717:
2
The plaint of my own life vanished from me in a moment.
3
Only the lonely pillow and the midnight hour shall hear my plaint.
4
The Prince held up his hand, and the merchant ceased his plaint.
5
Then all the young girl's vexation was exhaled in a low plaint:
Usage of lament in inglés
1
Sir, -Many sincere Christians lament alcohol being sold today, Good Friday.
2
Advocates of hybrid technology often lament the high cost of the cars.
3
Bowman was left to lament a missed opportunity, but not for long.
4
The next is the lament of the mother over her dead son:
5
No need to lament a scarcity that's in your hands to change.
6
Economists constantly lament the fact that there is so much economic illiteracy.
7
Some designers lament the fact they have little time left to draw.
8
He may sometimes sin; but whenever he does he will lament it.
9
And the milkmaids on the uplands would lament to see me going
10
Thus does Solomon lament over the certain decay of the Jewish Empire.
11
The waves broke on the rocky coast with a growl of lament.
12
The Celtics were left to lament the opening quarter of each half.
13
And, following this, the little girl lifted her voice in lachrymal lament.
14
Bulletproof, a lament about an anonymous unrequited love, has the same effect.
15
They thought with many a lament of their warm quarters in Winchester.
16
At first there was the transformation to lament, the loss, the break.
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Lament through the time
Lament across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common