All 11 Uses of
lament
in
The Joy Luck Club
- "Stand still, Ying-ying!" she cried, her usual lament, while I giggled and wobbled on the stool.†
Chpt 5lament = express grief or regret
- But how can I rub a swollen foot?" lamented the old lady.†
Chpt 5lamented = expressed grief or regret
- "My fate and my penance," she began to lament, pulling her long fingers through her hair, "to live here on the moon, while my husband lives on the sun.†
Chpt 5lament = express grief or regret
- I fell back onto the sand, groaning as my throat grew tight, as I made the same lament: "Why?"†
Chpt 9
- "You look like Negro Chinese," she lamented, as if I had done this on purpose.†
Chpt 10lamented = expressed grief or regret
- "She bring home too many trophy," lamented Auntie Lindo that Sunday.†
Chpt 10
- But now she laments that she never did anything to stop them.
Chpt 12 *laments = expresses regret
- And her laments always compel Harold to explain to my mother in simple terms: "Well, you see, it's the details that cost so much.†
Chpt 12laments = expresses grief or regret
- I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting to hear her protests, her laments, the dry voice delivering some sort of painful verdict.†
Chpt 13
- The baby laughed, listening to her grandmother's laments.†
Chpt 16
- And when she had finished with these laments, she turned her complaints to me: a spot on my new dress, a tangle in my hair, my twisted stockings.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
to express grief or regret