I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
absence
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Crossing in Force 9 winds led me to lament the absence of a grab-rail in the shower.
lack
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As he lay dying, one of those present lamented his lack of issue.
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For example, many district sales managers lamented the lack of enough qualified leads for account representatives to make their goals.
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Romano Prodi, president of the commission, lamented the lack of radical reform.
loss
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But Basque regional political leaders lamented the loss of life and urged that dialogue be reopened.
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He lamented their losses , praised their courage, and attributed their lack of success to accidental causes.
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Will expressed a desire to keep the twenty-two dele-gates and later lamented their loss .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I can remember my first day of school," Grandpa lamented, "but I can't remember what I had for lunch."
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A gathering of family and friends lamented the deaths of the two pilots.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During a stop at a beach, Babbitt lamented the intrusion of non-native Tamarisk bushes along the river banks.
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Experts lament that neither the central government nor most states have agencies dedicated to disaster planning.
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For example, many district sales managers lamented the lack of enough qualified leads for account representatives to make their goals.
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Nigel Mansell will defy critics who lament his departure from Formula One and make a success of Indy 500.
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once lamented that since everyone handles money, there are many know-nothings who think they understand economics.
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Puzzled successors lamented the complexity of late Beethoven.
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Will expressed a desire to keep the twenty-two dele-gates and later lamented their loss.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A mariachi band approaches and launches into a lively lament on what it is to be alone and without love.
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Brueggemann then contrasts the pit imagery with that of the wing, which also occurs in these psalms of lament .
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However, it is clear that the technologist who replies to the conservationist's lament is not an alternative technologist.
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More than offer: I had barely mentioned what my book was about when her lament came pouring out.
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On trips organised for food writers, public perfidy is a popular lament .
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The Farous' lament came to an end and the boy punched the tape out of its slot.
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What a dismal, doleful, baleful lament of a speech we had from him.