Sentence examples for had been lamenting from inspiring English sources

She had been lamenting that victims of sexual abuse often feel that they are "no longer as good as everybody else".

He said Mr. Barnes had been "lamenting the fact that for a family of four to go to dinner and the theater, it can cost close to $100".

But since our daughters have learned to play the piano and the acoustic guitar, respectively, he had been lamenting how he always wanted to play the bass but never had time to learn.

As recently as September, at the Paris Motor Show, he had been lamenting Europe's failure to do something about factories that have been operating at a fraction of their potential.

Before Bullitt broached the subject, Freud, already suffering from cancer of the jaw, had been lamenting that his own death would be insignificant since he had nothing more to say.

His ouster had been lamented by much of the New York media ("The @villagevoice firing @mikeymusto amounts to @villagevoice firing itself: auto-da-fé," tweeted The New Yorker's Philip Gourevitch), and the outrage had begun to open some surprising doors.

Ever since Darwin, scientists have been lamenting the gaps in the fossil record.

In one interview after another over the past fortnight, Mr Breuer has been lamenting the bank's share price.

I've been lamenting the demise of the independent bookshop for a while now, everything just seems to be disappearing.

Led most recently by the scholar Charles Murray, the American right has been lamenting the decline of those family values within the white working class.

Senators from both parties have been lamenting cuts for days, especially if the state has the money on hand and just won't spend it.