Sentence examples for to be lament from inspiring English sources
The phrase "to be lament" is not correct in English.
It seems to be an incorrect construction and does not convey a clear meaning. An example of a correct usage might be: "It is to be lamented that we lost the opportunity."
That old 'it's not what it used to be' lament is a rigid bore.
Nuclear weapons are, of course, always to be lamented.
The endowment's abandonment of living American artists is to be lamented.
"It's not cheap like it used to be," laments Dale Weathington of Kolcraft, an American firm that uses contract manufacturers to make prams in southern China.
Well, it seems to be lamenting the early passing away of such youthful beauty – this is a subject which Michelangelo had also addressed in his poems.
But that doesn't mean brutalism's demise is not to be lamented by everyone who grew up in its shadow.
IN New York, as elsewhere, there are plenty of Jeremiahs in the world of classical music and plenty of reasons for them to be lamenting.
But then, not all of life is rational, and part of me says, they do not need to be compared, and somewhere in the heart of life, the vanishing of that tiny, silvery springtime song cries out to be lamented.
Nostalgia for a golden age of Parliament, when MPs shamed the lickspittles of today with their unwhippable iconoclasm, is simply ahistorical.Nor is the professionalisation of politics necessarily to be lamented.
One reason the theater world always seems to be lamenting a dearth of promising young playwrights is that it rarely makes room for the kind of play that young people tend to write.
"TV isn't what it used to be," laments one entertainment attorney who represents several top-tier television stars.
