How to Use bemoan in a Sentence

bemoan

verb

• He bemoans the fact that the team lost again.
• Some critics are always bemoaning the state of the language.
• Ivey bemoaned the low bond amounts, noting they are set by the state.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 11 Apr. 2023
• That was Michael Moore bemoaning the state of the country.
  — Fox News, 30 June 2018
• At the time, a critic for The Nation bemoaned how such a size dwarfed the acoustics.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2023
• Enjoy a win or bemoan a loss for one day, then move on to what’s next.
  — Jeremy Price, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2021
• Others bemoan the loss of youth sports and long for the day our kids can play soccer again.
  — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
• Or the Giants and Mets will bemoan the loss of a true franchise player.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• And fast-food lovers bemoan steep prices for a Big Mac combo.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024
• While some people love the daylight at the end of the day as the weather warms, others bemoan the loss of an hour's sleep.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2021
• That might seem like quite a statement from a guy who once bemoaned touring in the Yuck days.
  — John Norris, Billboard, 4 May 2018
• Gordy used to bemoan his mediocre dancing because the good dancers seemed to get the girls.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• Izzo has been known to bemoan the loss of players to injury.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb. 2020
• For once, a bat mitzvah wasn’t something to be mocked, or eye-rolled, or bemoaned.
  — Jonah Platt, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Tens of millions were left to marvel at — or bemoan — the water’s force.
  — Barbara Fraser, Discover Magazine, 28 Sep. 2018
• The characters, most of whom have been living on the North Shore for years if not decades, bemoan the changing times.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2024
• It’s gone well enough for Bay FC’s coach to bemoan the timing of his club’s impending pause.
  — Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
• Both my husband and daughter bemoaned the loss of our peaceful evening.
  — Carolyn Hax, idahostatesman, 19 Jan. 2018
• In his speech, Flake bemoaned the takeover of his party by angry populists.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 25 Oct. 2017
• There also have been a flood of queries to experts, who bemoan the killing of helpful bees, wasps, and hornets.
  — National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2020
• For the past several weeks, coach Gregg Popovich has bemoaned a slippage in the Spurs’ defense.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2018
• Since Donald Trump won the election in 2016, Democrats have bemoaned the end of democracy.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
• Children bemoan the end of their leisurely holidays and trudge back to the classroom.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2020
• For decades, Coloradans bemoaned the Texas invasion, but that has ebbed.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2019
• Few bemoaned the demise of the jihadist leaders of al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
  — The Economist, 7 Jan. 2020
• Esposito bemoans the loss of the type of music Freddie Mercury — and his big voice — gave the world.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
• In an email this month to The Post, Knowles bemoaned that the board's concerns were not taken more seriously.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2018
• So Nowitzki stood up in his courtside seat and waved to a crowd that once bemoaned his presence.
  — Mark Medina, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2019
• In The Guardian, Conor Niland bemoans the loneliness of life as a low-ranking tennis player.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2024
• Less than an hour after the 30-17 defeat, Boutte bemoaned the team’s game plan against a Cardinals defense that held the Patriots to three points entering the fourth quarter.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025