How to Use lamentable in a Sentence

lamentable

adjective

• In some ways, the new show is about the inexorable pull of time, the lamentable fact of aging.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2024
• The effort by some to erase their work in 'The Woman King' is lamentable.
  — Richard Galant, CNN, 25 Sep. 2022
• The search for Covid’s origin seems to have stalled, which is lamentable.
  — Scott Gottlieb, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2022
• Shaw has followed the Phillies for much of their long, often-lamentable past.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2022
• To avoid such a lamentable fate, here are some easy-to-follow guidelines from the YMCA.
  — cleveland, 18 July 2022
• This is not to put Pollyanna up in opposition to Mr. Wheatcroft’s jeremiad but rather to point out that Britain’s lot on the world stage since 1945 has not been so lamentable.
  — Richard Aldous, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• One of the things that makes the Lord of War aspect of this whole lamentable affair so extraordinary is the movie’s ending.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 8 Dec. 2022
• But maybe the most lamentable casualty is the tell-off.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2016
• If, as seems clear, some migrants have left their home countries as a result of climate change, that is indeed lamentable.
  — Sean-Michael Pigeon, National Review, 20 July 2021
• His mouth is at a lamentable angle, drawn down on one side in an expression of sinister glee.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 26 Oct. 2017
• His sense of duty yields an effortful and sanctimonious movie that, at the same time, takes its place in a lamentable recent trend.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
• There were so many elements of Rosalind's story, which were more lamentable than some of the other women.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 July 2021
• Yet even those lamentable losses proved far less costly than any large global war.
  — Jeffrey A. Engel, Twin Cities, 6 June 2019
• The Lakers are steaming toward a new future, with little tying them to the lamentable recent past.
  — Greg Beacham, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
• Somehow a lamentable yarn about Jevon Kearse beating Orlando Sr. on a long-ago pass rush resurfaced.
  — Brian Hamilton, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2016
• Some buyers will balk at the Kia’s eccentric styling but not the Mazda, which (despite its lamentable wheel-arch cladding) is one of the most appealing vehicles out there.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2020
• Perhaps such lamentable figures were low-hanging fruit, but Randi plucked them with aplomb.
  — Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2020
• That lamentable ship that arrived with its human cargo in 1619 was a Portuguese vessel bound for what is now Mexico.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• So against the backdrop of real estate's lamentable history vis-à-vis Black people, low-ball appraisals are more of the same, deeply troubling pattern.
  — Gayle Fleming, CNN, 29 Aug. 2022
• The commission found lamentable failures but put to rest the partisan claims of deception.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
• That these places now exist for children in the nation’s capital is both commendable and lamentable.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019
• That lamentable inequity has been eliminated, but there is still another troubling aspect to this part of the bill, which Bernstein pointed out to me.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
• Lives, livelihoods, homes, and cabins will be lost — the lamentable collateral damage of our green future.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
• In some respects, Europe’s response since 2016 has been almost as lamentable as Trump has been to American prestige.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 24 June 2020
• French viewers seemed to be less bothered by this lamentable first than by the fact that Asselineau seemed to have swallowed an anthology of Chinese proverbs.
  — Bernard-Henri Lévy, The Hive, 19 Apr. 2017
• Because our record as a country is lamentable, with just over half of our citizens voting in presidential elections since the 1960s.
  — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2020
• To be sure, there is something understandable, yet lamentable, in that notion.
  — Michael Serazio, Fortune, 25 Dec. 2023
• Not all of these ideas were palatable — the conference’s foray into ice hockey has been lamentable — but most have been wildly successful.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 5 June 2019
• Bringing on the past Bachelorette who famously made a lamentable choice would fit pretty well into the budding Clare-may-be-making-the-wrong-choice storyline.
  — Ariana Brockington, refinery29.com, 27 Oct. 2020
• Its lyrics feature lamentable celebrations of youth violence, and its songs and videos can include taunting and direct mentions of specific murders.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024