| lament lack | 4.21 | Liang laments the lack of accountability. | ||
| lament loss | 3.82 | We lament their loss. | ||
| lament fact | 2.11 | Sadly, they lamented the fact that they hardly knew them. | ||
| lament absence | 0.72 | And Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, lamented the absence of prayer in classrooms. | ||
| lament death | 0.66 | He lamented the death of the Soviet Union. | ||
| lament decline | 0.66 | McNulty does not simply lament the decline of wild salmon runs. | ||
| lament state | 0.66 | He laments the state of affairs in his former homeland. | ||
| lament failure | 0.59 | Musharraf praised Vajpayee as a statesman and lamented their failure. | ||
| lament passing | 0.59 | Few will lament its passing. | ||
| lament change | 0.53 | But others lament the change. | ||
| lament inability | 0.46 | Votaw lamented the inability to fill an open date on the tour calendar next month. | ||
| lament way | 0.46 | In the next, she would lament the way that the news media glorify her profession. | ||
| lament dearth | 0.39 | Simpson laments the dearth of respected Republicans who can claim national reputations. | ||
| lament departure | 0.39 | Characters lament the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. | ||
| lament fate | 0.39 | But women did not cower at home lamenting their fate, she said. | ||
| lament plight | 0.39 | A group of men stood nearby, angry and sad and lamenting their plight. | ||
| lament demise | 0.33 | High-energy physicists continue to lament the demise of the SSC. | ||
| lament difficulty | 0.33 | Another lamented the difficulty in getting academics to contribute articles. | ||
| lament end | 0.33 | She laments the end of this era. | ||
| lament opportunity | 0.33 | New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming lamented missed opportunities. |