| 1 | Not so long ago, the world lamented its broken continent. | |
| 2 | For much of the past two decades, many Chinese lament, the trend has been in the opposite direction. | |
| 3 | There's lyric poetry, there's love poetry, there are proverbs, there are psalms of thanksgiving and lament. | |
| 4 | In India, he lamented, this couldn't get done, because the people would stop it. | |
| 5 | As a report by Macquarie Capital Securities laments, "reliable facts are still hard to find". |