Bewail in A Sentence

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    And she burst into sobs with the despairing vehemence with which people bewail disasters they feel they have themselves occasioned.

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    Francis Meres (Palladis Tamia, 1598) mentions him in conjunction with many great names among "the most passionate, among us, to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of love."

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    His sins were not grievous, and he did not bewail them.

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    I How shall I bewail ?

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    The last act of his public career was to bewail with tears the ruin which he declared the duke of Buckingham was bringing upon the country.

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    The letters of Acominatus, archbishop of Athens, towards the close of the 12th century, bewail the desolate condition of the city in language resembling that of Jeremiah in regard to Jerusalem.

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    They bewail the fact that their own fisheries inspection service seems powerless to stop these incursions or arrest the offenders.